CREWS GET JUMP ON 2 BRUSH FIRES.Byline: Karyn Hunt Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Two of three wildfires that got the state's annual fire season off to an early start were nearly out Saturday. But crews were still wrestling with one that jumped over the lines they dug to stop its forward march. The California Department of Forestry declared Saturday morning that they had built protective circles around the wine country blaze in Sonoma and a grass fire that flashed Friday in El Dorado El Dorado, legendary country of South America El Dorado (ĕl`dərä`dō, –rā`–) [Span.,=the gilded man], legendary country of the Golden Man sought by adventurers in South America. County in the Sierra Foothills. But a 2,370-acre fire in Mariposa County, just south of Highway 49, broke through lines on its eastern flank Friday. By Saturday, it was giving some 1,800 firefighters, helicopters and air tankers a rough time. That blaze, which started Thursday, had destroyed 11 homes and three sheds and prompted the evacuation of 100 families at the base of Wildcat Mountain Wildcat Mountain is the name of 43 summits in the United States, including:
While crews had the flames 40 percent contained, firefighters were concerned that afternoon winds could stir them up once again and push them over fire lines as happened the day before. Full containment is expected by 6 p.m. today. ``That's the prime put up or shut up time for the firefighters,'' CDF (1) (Central Distribution Frame) A connecting unit (typically a hub) that acts as a central distribution point to all the nodes in a zone or domain. See MDF. volunteer Alvin Eulberg said. ``We really don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how we've done today until we pass that period.'' In fact, fire officials thought they had the so-called Stumpfield fire stopped Friday, but it jumped the lines crews had dug to starve starve v. 1. To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food. 2. To deprive of food so as to cause suffering or death. it of fuel and took off with the easterly afternoon winds, he said. The only good news from the Mariposa front was that evacuees Resident or transient persons who have been ordered or authorized to move by competent authorities, and whose movement and accommodation are planned, organized and controlled by such authorities. on the western side of the burned area were allowed back into their homes late Friday night and Pacific Gas & Electric crews were restoring power on Saturday, Eulberg said. On other fronts, firefighters declared early Saturday that they had full containment around the 2,087-acre wine country blaze in Sonoma and hoped to have it completely out by Monday. By the time they had stopped that blaze, the flames had burned two homes, 45-acres of vineyard land and caused $2.5 million worth of damage, CDF spokeswoman Sandra Locke said. It began when a tree limb that had not been properly trimmed fell into a 12,000 volt power line. A 9,280-acre grass fire that flared suddenly in El Dorado County in the Sierra Foothills on Friday afternoon also was contained. That one started at 2 p.m. and flashed through a grassy grass·y adj. grass·i·er, grass·i·est 1. Covered with or abounding in grass. 2. Resembling or suggestive of grass, as in color or odor. Adj. 1. area without igniting any structures, the CDF said. |
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