State of emergency declared in Idaho because of fires

“This is a reward for many of these individuals,” California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant said to Mother Jones.

Here’s the latest report from the “Incident Information System” – Mason Spring and Berry Creek Fires, making up the Canyon Creek Complex, have now grown together for an estimated 22,000 acres. Elsewhere, an uncontained blaze near Cougar Creek had burned 28 square miles near the Yakima Indian reservation. People in that area and those along a creek to the south were ordered to evacuate. One hiker suffered a heat-related illness and was transported to a local hospital by ground ambulance.

Meanwhile, the Soda Fire on the Idaho-Oregon border surpasses 270,000 acres, according to InciWeb, and is now the largest fire in the nation. Fire activity is expected to remain high because of extremely dry conditions. At 6 p.m., after surveying some of the blackened area within the Jerusalem burn, authorities counted four destroyed homes and 13 outbuildings scorched by the blaze. One unoccupied structure has been destroyed.

Winds pushed the fire south out of Big Canyon up onto the prairie and crossed highway 62.

“The Anderson Road area was fairly devastated by fire last night”, he said Saturday. The Dodge Fire, previously named R-1, is burning brush, grass and juniper in a remote area of northeast Lassen County, Calif. It is threatening habitat for greater sage-grouse.

In return, they make somewhere between $1.45 and $3.90 per day, according to the CDCR.

“The entire town of Chelan is without power and gas stations cannot pump fuel”, Magnussen said, adding that emergency officials were helping residents, some of whom depend on bottled oxygen, leave an assisted-living facility. Residential property could be targeted as well.

That blaze forced about 360 people to be evacuated from a camping area in the year-round Lutheran retreat of Holden Village, where the fire remains active, fire officials said.

The federal government has said that it expects to exhaust its firefighting budget by next month.

Another five sheriff’s personnel were scheduled to arrive in Trinity County on Friday, according to Castillo.

Speaking with KQED, inmate Cory Sills said that, despite sometimes having to work 24-hour shifts, he generally feels like the camps are a good thing, especially since prisoners are treated better than they are behind bars.

The Fork Complex Fire, burning in the Yolla Bolly Wilderness north through the Trinity Alps in Trinity County, is 30,154 acres and 32 percent contained.

“The Lake County OES has received many generous requests on how they can help”.

With usual firefighting resources exhausted, state and other fire officials were working with the National Guard and considering the use of worldwide fire crews, said Mary Verner, deputy supervisor for wildfire and administration for the Department of Natural Resources.

With drought conditions, CalFire urged the public to be careful outdoors, citing how pulling over in dry grass can easily ignite a wildfire.