Map: Dixie Fire perimeter and evacuations; poised to become biggest of season

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• Map: Tamarack Fire perimeter and evacuations south of Lake Tahoe The Tamarack Fire grew to the northeast Sunday and joined with the East Fork Fire, according to an update from the Forest Service. As of Monday morning, Tamarack’s area was estimated at 23,078 acres (36 square miles) with no containment. Smoke and weather conditions had prevented a mapping flight to get more accurate information about the fire’s boundaries, but a map released by the Forest Service put its eastern edge about a mile from the Nevada line in the Leviathan…
• Evacuation orders expand on Dixie Fire, now 91,628 acres PULGA — Though the Dixie Fire grew by several thousand more acres Wednesday and containment didn’t change, fire officials said crews are making progress and remain optimistic they will get a handle on the fire “very soon.” The Dixie Fire had grown to 91,628 acres by Wednesday evening. The containment on the fire remains at 15 percent. The fire grew by about 15,000 acres overnight Tuesday, and approximately 6,000 acres between Wednesday morning and evening. Tony Brownell, Cal Fire operations…
• Exploding 21,000-acre Tamarack Fire closes part of the Pacific Crest Trail as threats of dry lightning loom National Forest officials in eastern California announced Sunday that they were closing a 26-mile stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail as a lightning-sparked wildfire rapidly exploded nearby and critically dangerous wildfire weather threatened to make the situation worse. The Tamarack Fire, which began on July 4 in Alpine County, grew from 500 acres Friday night to 21,000 as of Sunday morning, with zero containment. Officials with the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest say the rapid growth was fueled by strong winds on…
• Dixie Fire grows by more than 11,000 acres overnight PULGA — The Dixie Fire burned actively through Sunday night into Monday morning, pushing toward the east and north, while weather conditions continued to cause challenges in containing the fire. The fire was mapped at 30,074 acres with 15 percent containment as of Monday morning. When Cal Fire last updated the acreage count Sunday night, the fire was at 18,702 acres. No structures have been damaged or destroyed, though Cal Fire estimates 810 structures are threatened in the fire’s current…
• PG&E says its equipment may be linked to Northern California Dixie Fire SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric equipment may have been involved in the start of the big Dixie Fire burning in the Sierra Nevada, the nation’s largest utility reported to California regulators. PG&E said in a report Sunday to the California Public Utilities Commission that a repair man responding to a circuit outage on July 13 spotted blown fuses in a conductor atop a pole, a tree leaning into the conductor and fire at the base of the tree.…
• Huge Oregon blaze grows as wildfires burn across western US The largest wildfire in the U.S. torched more dry forest landscape in Oregon on Sunday, one of dozens of major blazes burning across the West as critically dangerous fire weather loomed in the coming days. The destructive Bootleg Fire just north of the California border grew to more than 476 square miles (1,210 square kilometers), an area about the size of Los Angeles. Erratic winds fed the blaze, creating dangerous conditions for firefighters, said Sarah Gracey, a spokeswoman for the…
• Western wildfires: California blaze crosses into Nevada A Northern California wildfire crossed into Nevada, prompting new evacuations, but better weather has been helping crews battling the nation’s largest blaze in southern Oregon. The Tamarack Fire south of Lake Tahoe had burned more than 68 square miles (176 square kilometers) of timber and head-high chaparral in national forest land. It erupted on July 4 and was one of nearly two dozen blazes sparked by lightning strikes. More than 1,200 firefighters were battling the Alpine County blaze, which has…
• Unstable weather will continue to fuel huge Oregon blaze Dry, unstable and windy conditions will keep fueling a massive wildfire in southern Oregon, forecasters said, as the largely uncontained blaze grows by miles each day. The Bootleg Fire was just one of numerous wildfires burning across the U.S. West. Crews had to flee the fire lines of the Oregon blaze late Thursday after a dangerous “fire cloud” started to collapse, threatening them with strong downdrafts and flying embers. An initial review Friday showed the Bootleg Fire destroyed 67 homes…
• Unstable weather will continue to fuel huge Oregon blaze By Gillian Flaccus | Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Dry, unstable and windy conditions will keep fueling a massive wildfire in southern Oregon, forecasters said, as the largely uncontained blaze grows by miles each day. The Bootleg Fire was just one of numerous wildfires burning across the U.S. West. Crews had to flee the fire lines of the Oregon blaze late Thursday after a dangerous “fire cloud” started to collapse, threatening them with strong downdrafts and flying embers. An initial…
• Unstable weather will continue to fuel huge Oregon blaze By Gillian Flaccus | Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Dry, unstable and windy conditions will keep fueling a massive wildfire in southern Oregon, forecasters said, as the largely uncontained blaze grows by miles each day. The Bootleg Fire was just one of numerous wildfires burning across the U.S. West. Crews had to flee the fire lines of the Oregon blaze late Thursday after a dangerous “fire cloud” started to collapse, threatening them with strong downdrafts and flying embers. An initial…