Cloudy weather and some good rain helped firefighters Sunday night and Monday. Bulldozers managed to ring the city of Yreka with firebreaks, while crews carving out firelines in steep and rugged terrain also were making progress, fire officials said.
When ash began to fall and his throat was burning from the smoke, Franklin Thom decided it was time to leave the city where he grew up on the edge of the national forest in California.
In northwestern Montana, a fire that started Friday afternoon near the town of Elmo on the Flathead Indian Reservation measured 20 square miles, fire officials said. Some people were forced to flee their homes as gusting afternoon winds drove the fire east. But the weather was a mixed blessing. Weekend lightning also sparked several smaller fires near the McKinney Fire. And despite the much-needed moisture, forests and fields in the region remained bone-dry.
She was living in a motel with her six children, ranging in age from 15 to her 1-year-old twins, when she was told to evacuate. Elsewhere, the Moose Fire in Idaho has burned more than 85 square miles in the Salmon-Challis National Forest while threatening homes, mining operations and fisheries near the town of Salmon. It was 23% contained Monday.
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