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The 1999 Jones Fire and the 2004 Bear Fire burned a combined 37,000 acres (14,973 ha) and hundreds of structures in the Jones Valley region just to the east of the Fawn Fire's footprint. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Other destructive wildfires in the WUI in and near Redding area in recent years include the 1999 Jones Fire, the 2013 Clover Fire , and the 2018 ...
The fire quickly spread into Middletown and Hidden Valley, threatening northern Sonoma County around The Geysers, and northern Napa County, approaching Pope Valley and Angwin. [12] In the first few hours of the fire, four CAL FIRE firefighters from the Boggs Mountain helitack crew suffered second-degree burns while engaging in initial attack on
Residents in Shasta County, California, scrambled to evacuate their homes on September 23 after the Fawn Fire burning north of Redding expanded to 800 acres, sending plumes of smoke over the city ...
The 1999 Jones Fire was a destructive wildfire in the U.S. state of California's Shasta County.The fire ignited on October 16, and was contained on October 19, 1999. [1] It burned 26,200 acres (10,600 ha), destroyed 954 structures, and resulted in one fatality, [2] becoming the then-second most destructive wildfire ever recorded in California, behind only the Oakland firestorm of 1991. [3]
The NWS forecast predicts that Park Fire smoke will generally head north and east, affecting communities such as Redding and Red Bluff. The current forecast runs to Sunday. Park Fire smoke forecast
Authorities in California ordered evacuations for areas in Shasta County as a fire west of Redding grew to 7,000 acres on Sunday, September 27.The Zogg Fire, as it’s been called, prompted ...
The valley's grass and barren land can become easily susceptible to dry spells and drought, therefore making it a prime spot for brush fires and conflagrations, many of which have occurred since 1914. Hills and canyons have seen brush or wildfires in 1914, the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and into today.
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