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LAKEPORT, California (AP) – The latest on California fires (all local times):
4:35 pm
Hundreds of people were forced from their homes as a fire caused by a fire thunderstorm burning near Grants Pass, Oregon
The 39 square mile fire (101 square kilometers) is moving towards the Rogue River
The fire in southwestern Oregon caused the evacuation of people in the Merlin and Grants Pass areas,
4 pm
Northern California fire officials added residents of two towns near Clear Lake to the list of people who have been ordered to evacuate.
The notice was released Monday for the cities Kelseyville and Finley brought the number of people affected by the Mendocino fires to about 18,000.
The outbreak of fire in the east and west North forced evacuees from a shelter that had been installed at Kelseyville High School
. Michelle Mata, three, says she's already tired and exhausted
Cal Fire's division chief, Charlie Blankenheim, said he's expecting significant growth as the fire would enter the Mendocino National Forest.
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12:10 pm
Derick Hughes II He stayed at his property in Nice, California, despite mandatory evacuation orders caused by a fire threatening the area.
Hughes said Monday that he was using sprinklers to water his roof and remove garden plants that could ignite. The 32-year-old Marine Corps veteran says he sent his wife and two daughters on Sunday with three personal effects cars
Hughes says he and about five of his neighbors chose to protect their homes from fire and looters, despite an evacuation text alert that they had Sunday night.
Lake County officials said Monday that 14,000 people were under evacuation orders. Another thousand moved to nearby Mendocino County
Two fires encroach on several cities surrounding Clear Lake.
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11:15
An official says that at least 14,000 people are under evacuation orders in an area of northern California that has been affected by deadly fires during last four years.
Another thousand people were displaced in nearby Mendocino County
Lake County sheriff Lieutenant Corey Paulich said Monday that two flames on Lakeport, Upper Lake and Nice, but did not not yet reached heavily populated areas.
Paulich says residents took into account evacuation orders because they saw the destruction caused by past fires.
The depleted county about 110 miles (180 kilometers) northwest of Sacramento has been affected by several forest fires since 2015 that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least four people.
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9:20
A few evacuations o The California Department of Forests and Fire Protection stated that people could return to several neighborhoods in the west of Redding starting on Monday morning.
The huge fire near Redding moved 38,000 of their homes and killed six people.
Firefighters say that the deadly fire has slowed its growth after days of rapid expansion.
Fire burning for more than a week burned 155 square miles (400 square kilometers)
It killed two firefighters and four civilians.
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8:30
Police say five people were arrested because they were suspected of entering areas of northern California evacuated due to a trail of explosive powder, including a man dressed in camouflage and carrying a loaded handgun.
The Record Searchlight reports on Monday that police arrested Mitchell Stuebgen on Saturday night in an evacuated area of Redding, California, where a huge fire displaced 38,000 people and killed six people
Police say Stuebgen was dressed in camouflage and carrying a loaded handgun, a billiard club, nunchucks and a concealed dagger. arrested on Sunday Brian Cordoza, 44, and Frank Webber, 37, both of Redding, for being in an evacuated area.
The Bee in Sacramento reports that Jade Ball, 25, and 19-year-old Jack Fannin, of Redding, was also arrested on Sunday after the police found out what they thought was linked to several burglaries [19659002] ___
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A man whose wife and two great-grandchildren were killed A forest fire in Redding, California, says that he has not received any type warning to evacuate.
Ed Bledsoe told CBS News that he did not know his home was in danger when he left his wife, Melody, and the one-year-old kids to run a race on Thursday.
Bledsoe says that he receives a phone call from his wife 15 minutes later, saying that he needed to go home because the fire was approaching. He says that one of the children had told him that the fire was at the back door.
Bledsoe says that he tried to come back, but the road was blocked by cars and flames prevented him from returning on foot
Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko's network investigation for to know if Bledsoe's house received a warning or a knock on the door of the house. The sheriff says that there is evidence that door-to-door notifications have been made in the area.
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7:15 am
More than 10,000 people are under mandatory evacuation as two fires are 30 miles (50 Mendocino County Deputy Sheriff Matthew Kendall claims 1,000 had to be evacuated in his county, the rest in Lake County, where the inhabitants of Lakeport with a population of 5000 were ordered to leave on Sunday evening.
Fires that began Friday are 160 kilometers southwest of Redding Officials said Monday that 723 homes had been destroyed by this fire, compared to 657 previously.
California firefighters claim that the fire has spread overnight during the night. 153 square miles (395 square kilometers)
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11 am
Authorities arrested two people suspected of looting homes that had been evacuated due to an explosive forest fire.
The bee d e Sacramento reports that 25-year-old Jade Ball and 19-year-old Jack Fannin of Redding were found with what the police said was evidence of several burglaries
The Carr Fire provoked mandatory evacuations for dozens thousands of people in Redding. miles north of San Francisco. He destroyed more than 650 homes
Authorities say that an owner who stayed behind demolished an agent after noticing the evidence that people were at his home.
The police found a home nearby with a broken door and discovered electronic objects piled up by the front door. Police say that they do not believe the owners have placed items like this before evacuating.
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10:45 pm
Thousands of others flee their homes after forest fires hit a small town in northern California. Firefighters progressed in a battle against a deadly fire.
Teams that have reached their limits across the state are fighting the flames that cost the lives of two firefighters and six civilians
. The major outbreak of two fires that combined in Mendocino and Lake counties destroyed at least four homes. Lakeport, which has a population of about 5,000, is about 120 miles north of San Francisco
In the northeast, a massive fire near Redding has slowed for the first time in days of explosive growth
a huge outbreak south near Yosemite National Park.
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