BANNING: Travel trailer burns, 2 persons hurt

Other fire departments in the area also have sent or are planning to send firefighters and apparatus to fight wildfires burning in several western states.

Monday evening, more than 100 men and women from four states, including 40 volunteer firefighters from the Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry, returned from their two-week rotation in Redding, California. Cal Fire declined to update the figures, assuring only that they expected 95 percent containment on Wednesday morning.

The County Line 2 Fire started last week when a trailer lost a tire on Highway 26 near the Warm Springs Reservation.

At its April 15 meeting, the Black Forest Fire Rescue Protection District board voted unanimously to allow Chief Bryan Jack to place the department back on the list for possible future deployments.

Beginning tomorrow, NIFC wildland fire agency personnel and the Bureau of Land Management’s Vegas Valley crew at Joint-Base Lewis-McChord will train the service members, he said.

Winds in many parts of Northern California will continue at lighter speeds early in the week with very low humidity. The Fork Complex Fire and Rogue Fire are two that are also alarming Californians. Archambeault said the 400-acre fire was getting almost no attention from firefighters because it’s in such a remote location. That fire has reached 21,000 acres as of Tuesday, forcing the closure of a number of campgrounds and the evacuation of the Black Rock Reservoir region.

Elsewhere in the same forest, a fire that broke out Friday in the San Gabriel Mountains north of suburban Glendora was 84 percent contained after burning 2½-square miles.