Wildfires

Wildfires - California - Update

Search dogs checking neighborhoods incinerated by a 6-day-old wildfire in the Sierra Nevada haven’t found any more bodies, leaving the death toll at two, fire officials reported.

After burning nearly 73 square miles of brush and grass, the blaze was 60 percent contained. Winds that might push the fire were light, and crews continued to protect homes and carve a fire line. Inspectors tallied 257 homes and other buildings destroyed and 17 damaged. More than 1,800 firefighters were on the lines and firefighting costs reached $13 million.

Northeast of Los Angeles, two adjacent fires in the San Gabriel Mountains above foothill suburbs collectively covered 8½ square miles. The San Gabriel Complex was 72 percent contained nine days after the fires erupted. With 481 firefighters on the lines, high temperatures and oppressive humidity from the latest early season heat wave were a concern.

In far northwestern California, a 4½-square-mile fire in Klamath National Forest was 63 percent contained. The fire has been burning 15 miles southwest of Happy Camp in Siskiyou County.

East of San Diego and west of Santa Barbara, fires that each charred more than 11 square miles, were near full containment.

A 1-square-mile blaze that scarred the U.S. 395 community of Lee Vining in Mono County and smaller fires in Orange, San Luis Obispo and Lake counties were 50 to 85 percent contained.

Residents of a rural subdivision 50 miles northeast of Sacramento were evacuated as a wildfire climbed out of a steep canyon along the Middle Fork of the American River and approached homes near the Todd Valley community between Foresthill and Auburn.

Wildfires - Nova Scotia

Crews were battling several wildfires in wooded areas throughout the Nova Scotia on Tuesday, the provincial government said.