On the California side, the Markleeville, Woodford and Mesa Vista areas remain under mandatory evacuation orders, officials said. In response to the swelling flames, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office in Nevada issued voluntary evacuations for the Leviathan and Holbrook Junction areas. “There’s been a lot of good work done up in here, but there’s still a lot of work to do, and there’s still a lot of potential for this fire to move around,” operations manager Pat Seekins said during an incident update Tuesday evening.Ĭalifornia Dramatic photos capture California’s record-breaking firesĪlready this year, there have been more than twice as many acres burned than during the same period last year - and hundreds more fires.Īn estimated 800 homes are now threatened by the fire, LeClair said, noting that crews were prioritizing the blaze’s north and eastern perimeters in an attempt to keep flames from crossing highways.īut on Wednesday morning, video showed the fire appearing to jump Highway 89. Crews have struggled to obtain new acreage numbers because the fire’s pyrocumulonimbus cloud and significant smoke made aerial observation difficult, but they believe it grew beyond 40,000 acres overnight. The Tamarack fire remained at 0% containment Wednesday morning, fire incident spokeswoman Tracy LeClair said. and Russia.īut California’s fatigued firefighters were also up against the growing Tamarack fire in Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, near the Nevada state border, and a new blaze in Yuba County that ignited Tuesday afternoon. World & Nation Summer of disaster: Extreme weather wreaks havoc worldwide as climate change bears downĬlimate change is making the world more prone to floods like those in China and Europe and to heat waves and fires like those in the U.S.
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