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Though the flames were contained, firefighters were monitoring the burning train trestle for additional collapse, which could ignite another fire in the surrounding brush, the statement said. They are expected to be assigned to fight fires in Montana. Officials say the fire has...

Fire officials said evacuated residents will be allowed back in their homes beginning at 10 a.m. Tuesday and that crews expect to get a better handle on the fire in the overnight hours.

Most of the residents who were told to evacuate were allowed to return to their homes Monday.

Worsening conditions at the wildfire have prompted authorities to issue a second evacuation order this weekend.

The crew sent August. 3 is assisting the U.S. Forest Service beating back the blazes in Northern California.

A wildfire that broke out several miles southwest of a destructive fire in Northern California doubled in size overnight, charring almost 8 square miles. Authorities couldn’t say how many homes were evacuated or how many people were told to be prepared to flee. Containment...

The U.S Forest Service released the identity of the firefighter who died while combatting the Sierra Fire near Echo Summit on Saturday.

Though firefighters still were working in “hot and dry, not ideal conditions”, cooler temperatures and increased relative humidity were helping them make gains, he said.

One percent of fires now consume about 30 percent of the Forest Service’s firefighting budget, Vilsack said.

Waterloo/Morada Fire Department’s strike team members just left the Rocky Fire and are waiting in a staging area in Anderson for their next assignment, which may be the lightning strike fires in Shasta county, said Waterloo/Morada Fire Capt. Jason Harper.

With more than a dozen wildfires wreaking havoc in California alone, the Forest Service revealed that more than half of its operating budget – or roughly $1.2 billion – is going toward fighting fires.

The Rocky Fire was one of 20 wildfires being fought in California. The crews will battle mountainous wildfires in northern California using hand tools like shovels, axes and rakes to manually create a fire break or fire line around the wildfire perimeter.

All evacuation orders have been canceled and no road closures were in place.

Flames from a backfire operation burn through a grove of trees as firefighters try to head off the Rocky Fire on August 3, 2015 near Clearlake, California.

An approaching storm lowered temperatures in northern California from triple digits to the 60s and 70s on Monday, giving a respite to crews which have spent five days fighting the ravenous, 60,000-acre Rocky fire in near record heat.