![]() ![]() Evacuation orders were expanded Thursday to include hundreds of people living in Volcanoville and nearby Georgetown and Bottle Hill.Īn evacuation center to receive those displaced was set up at the Bell Road Baptist Church in Auburn. A mandatory evacuation order for about 2,500 people was in effect in parts of Placer County. More than 1,000 structures are threatened by the Mosquito fire, and some homes had been destroyed, but officials said they did not yet know how many. The order also covers Riverside County, where the Fairview fire has grown to nearly 24,000 acres, claimed two lives and injured another person. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Thursday for El Dorado and Placer counties due to the fire. The fact that the blaze was now chewing through dry timber on both sides of the river, he noted, “presents a new challenge” to fire conditions that were already dangerous. 1 priority is to get people out of their homes and out of the area.” It’s dry, and it’s burning into areas where there are people,” said California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection public information officer Chris Vestal. Friday, the blaze had grown to 14,250 acres with no containment, after doubling in size Thursday. (Noah Berger / Associated Press)įueled by critically dry brush and timber and boosted by record-setting heat, a fire in the foothills east of Sacramento doubled in size Thursday, sending smoke billowing east toward Lake Tahoe and western Nevada.īy the afternoon, the fire had wafted a giant pyrocumulus cloud over the Sierra, jumped the Middle Fork of the American River and was burning its way toward the hamlet of Volcanoville in El Dorado County.Īlso Thursday, PG&E filed a report with the state disclosing "electrical activity" on one of its transmission lines near where the Mosquito fire ignited Tuesday evening, near Foresthill in Placer County. Resident Chad Mackay watches the Mosquito fire create a huge cloud above the Foresthill community of Placer County on Thursday. ![]()
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