Kids Play at California Wildfire Evacuation Center

Napa Strike Team firefighters Mike Holmes and Dan Stith cover their eyes from the smoke during a controlled burn on Monday, September 14, 2015, in Adams, Calif.

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She lost her home in Middletown to the flames.

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The fire department said 135 residences, 79 outbuildings and four structures were damaged in the fire, and threatening 6,400 more.

Four firefighters were hospitalized with second-degree burns while working to contain the Butte fire in San Andreas.

Hittson said she called the sheriff’s office twice Saturday and CalFire on Sunday, only to be told by dispatchers, “we will get out there when we can”.

“It sounded like an explosion”, said 9-year-old evacuee, Dominic.

Fire crews gained some ground thanks to cooler weather and there was chance of rain for Tuesday night and Wednesday, which could help firefighters strengthen and build new containment lines, fire officials said. The communities of Cobb and Hidden Valley Lake were also affected. A state of emergency also has been declared in Amador and Calaveras counties, where the Butte Fire has destroyed more than 150 homes and businesses and was only 37 percent contained as of Tuesday.

McWilliams’ family says in a brief statement she was a retired teacher who had settled in the Middletown area in the previous year.

He said Tuesday that the White House has asked Congress to change the funding system so programs that go toward preventing wildfires can be protected, while making sure there are sufficient resources to assist state and local firefighters who are trying to protect lives and property.

According to the caretaker for Barbara McWilliams, she didn’t realize the blaze would reach her home. “We are going to have to make available increasing amounts of money”, Brown said Monday.

Residents in the area had to evacuate from their homes two times in as many weeks.

“This was a very destructive fire”, Cal Fire public information officer Daniel Berlant said Tuesday.

The Rough Fire has burned 139,000 acres near Sequoia and King’s Canyon National Parks.

The number of homes destroyed by a fire in the Gold Rush country of the Sierra Nevada foothills has risen to 233.

Fortunately, northern California will see a brief relief from the warm temperatures contributing to the spreading wildfires, says Weather Network meteorologist Kelly Sonnenburg.