8/29/2023 0 Comments Dixie fire today![]() ![]() We’re pretty comfortable with where we are and think that’s not going to happen but we’re still in there making sure that we’re taking care of those unburned islands inside the perimeter of the fire.” “What you can possibly have is an ignition of some fuels inside of the fire perimeter and it gets burning enough to send spot fires out beyond the fire perimeter. “It is possible to get a heavy wind or conditions are right - just because the fire has burned almost a million acres of the fire perimeter, it doesn’t mean that everything inside of that perimeter is burned up,” Carhart said. Carhart said crews specifically monitor unburned areas inside the perimeter called “islands” in case anything sparks. ![]() With crews continuing work inside the fire perimeter, other crews continue searching for any hot spots to suppress that may have a chance of causing fire activity. “As we go in and do things to fight the fire, things like taking dozers in, we will basically mess up roads and things like that and so we go back in and essentially fix the things that we had to mess up while we were fighting the fire.” “They’ve been seeing very limited fire activity throughout the fire perimeter the last few days so they’re well into their mop up stages and fire suppression repair,” Carhart said. Now activity is confined to Lassen County. The fire at one time spanned five counties (Butte, Lassen, Plumas, Tehama and Shasta). “We are letting a bunch of our hired equipment go - they finished their work for us and we’re getting them out of here.” That’s all finishing up today,” Carhart said. “As of today in Butte County we are finishing up all of our fire suppression repair efforts that we had done in the Butte part of the fire. Additionally, one firefighter has died and three have been injured since the fire began.Ĭal Fire Butte County Public Information Officer Rick Carhart said Friday that despite the difficulty faced early on by crews, great progress has been made. According to Cal Fire, a total of 1,329 structures have been destroyed. The fire has burned 963,276 total acres since beginning, destroying the communities of Greenville on Aug. Cal Fire now estimates a complete containment will be reached by Sept. The fire began July 13 in the Feather River Canyon near the Cresta Powerhouse. The fire is currently 94 percent contained as of Friday.
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