Four Black Forest firefighters sent to fight fires in northern California

Firefighters from four agencies knocked down the fire in about two hours.

“This is the first time since 2006 that DoD has mobilized … active-duty military personnel to serve as firefighters and assist NIFC in fire-suppression efforts”, he said.

By mid-morning Saturday, fire crews that had contained the so-called Rustic fire near Wood Ranch were bolstering the fire line and bracing for another day of triple-digit temperatures.

California began cooling down Monday after a weekend of blistering heat that made conditions hard for firefighters battling wildfires throughout the state.

Trade body Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) told Decanter.com on Monday (17 August) there were no reports of wildfires damaging vineyards, despite several of the California fires burning on the Napa County border.

The wildfire burning north of San Luis Obispo along the Cuesta Grade segment of U.S. 101 grew to 500 acres and forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes, state fire officials said in a statement. The Fork Complex Fire and Rogue Fire are two that are also alarming Californians. It is 10 percent contained.

This forest fire in California can create extensive damaged.

“There are still restoration activities we could do today that really would make a huge difference in the mitigation of kind of some of the impacts we don’t want to see – large area mortality and lots of smoke emissions”, says Stephens.

Banning is about 85 miles east of Los Angeles.

About 4,000 low-level felons from California’s state prisons are fighting the fires, operating out of so-called “conservation camps”, according to Julia Lurie, writing on Friday for Mother Jones. These two fires have combined, burning more than 50,000 acres so far.

A 2012 study by UC Berkeley researchers showed climate change will bring about major shifts in worldwide fire patterns.