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Northern California wildfire grows further after jumping highway



Fire burns at the base of trees along Highway 20 during the Rocky Fire in Lake County


The authorities hope to slow down their progress after a year, California's largest and most ferocious wildfire jumped the highway north of Napa Valley wine country dry during the drought broke grew for the seventh day.

Dubbed the name Rocky Fire Fire, more than 50 buildings and about 110 miles north of San Francisco Clairlak, rugged valleys and hills to the east of the city, thousands of people displaced by the outbreak last week, destroying some 67,000 acres roast.

Forestry and Fire Prevention (Cal Fire), according to the California Department, more than 13,000 people placed under evacuation orders or warnings, threats as well as the 7000 structure, listed in most homes.

Rocky was uncertain what sparked the fire, but the fire that broke out in parts of the state following the drying power of one of the nearly two dozen fires, the bulk of them in Northern California.

Four years of drought, forest fires, both fed by dry vegetation left.



Fire in the Rocky Lake County Fire, California Highway 20 through the rest of the tree burns ...

Firefighters temperature of the three-digit number to relax and profit as a light rain fell in the afternoon, Rocky, is set at 20 per cent, which the fire fight, he said.

But on Wednesday, heated, was predicted to bring drier conditions, the Cal Fire "extreme fire behavior potential for growth." Said

The number of structures destroyed by the fire, they burned bodies in the coming days is to be able to reach areas that would raise Referring aggressive, damage assessment teams.

Cal Fire to Fire in the Rocky property damage amounted to 24 homes and 26 of the annex building.

NAPA, California in the famous wine making visible smoke from the fire to the south up to 80 mph.



And in August in Lake County, California, the Rocky plant fire burned along Highway 20 meet ...

Cal Fire-fighting resources are already stretched, with more than 10,000 are on the front lines at the state level and it is the duty of all members called back to work...

Rocky fire-fighting has been set at 3200 alone, Cal Fire 19 water-dropping helicopters, four air tankers and bulldozers backed by nearly 60 says.

He had hoped the Cal Fire Fire aggressive state employee, a containment line, and part of the corridor, as well as serve as highways would remain closed on Monday jumped.

The White House said that US President Barack Obama on Tuesday highlighted the fire. Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency last week.

It has been reported that the occurrence of serious injuries from the fire rocky. But the forest service in the United States from South Dakota, California and Oregon border Modok National Forest is a separate, smaller fire died last Thursday.

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