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The Thompson Fire, which has been burning in Butte County near Lake Oroville since 11 a.m. Tuesday, was 3,568 acres (5.5 square miles) as of noon Wednesday, according to the Cal Fire website.
The Thompson Fire, which was reported shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday on the outskirts of Oroville in Butte County, had burned 2,136 acres as of 5:20 p.m., according to Cal Fire.
Smoke from the Park fire in Butte County shrouds trees in Upper Bidwell Park, northeast of Chico. (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection) Cal Fire listed the fire at 71,489 acres ...
The fire sparked at 10:51 a.m. on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, near Cherokee Road and Thompson Flat Cemetery Road. [7] Within six hours, the fire grew from 15 acres (6.1 ha) to over 2,100 acres (850 ha), causing Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, declared a state of emergency in Butte County.
The Butte County District Attorney's office announced the arrest of Ronnie Dean Stout II (born January 10, 1982), a 42-year-old resident of Chico on July 25, the second day of the fire. Stout was held under suspicion of having ignited the Park Fire by pushing a flaming 2007 Toyota Yaris —belonging to his mother [ 62 ] —off an embankment in ...
APACHE FIRE EVACUATION ORDER 6.24.24 8:35 p.m. The Butte County Sheriff’s office is issuing an EVACUATION ORDER for the south side of Grubbs Rd. between Crossa Country Rd. and Alta Arosa Dr in ...
CAL FIRE uses various apparatus to accomplish their daily responses. Engines fall under two categories, either being state-owned or city/county owned, which CAL FIRE operates under contract. [21] For the wildland portion, most engines are manufactured with West-Mark or Westates (now American Truck & Fire Apparatus) bodies on an International ...
The blaze burning in grass and oak woodlands has charred 3,789 acres (nearly 6 square miles) but was 55% contained as of 5:15 p.m. Friday, Cal Fire’s Butte County unit said — significant ...