Wafting smoke from northern California wildfires led the Bay Area Air Quality Management District on Tuesday morning to issue an air-quality warning for the region through at least Wednesday.
Firefighters extinguish a burning outbuilding as the Point Fire spreads along West Dry Creek Rd. in Healdsburg, Calif., on Sunday, June 16, 2024. California firefighters were battling raging blazes from Redding down to Indio on Tuesday as dry, sunny weather and wind combined with plentiful dried vegetation to create ideal conditions for wildfires to start and spread.
Dangerous fire conditions began sweeping over the state Friday when a dry, low-pressure weather system started to settle in, bringing winds and low humidity levels that made fire ignitions more likely and helped existing fires spread, said Brent Wachter, a fire meteorologist for the U.S. Forest Service. Windy conditions from the trough peaked Sunday and Monday, while “unseasonably low” humidity took hold Monday and Tuesday, Wachter said.
Two Northern California blazes that ignited Monday spread extremely quickly — as the Corral Fire had — torching nearly 5,000 acres in a matter of hours. The Aero Fire in the foothills east of Stockton pushed emergency officials to order evacuations in nearby Copperopolis, and by Tuesday afternoon had blackened 5,425 acres and was 20% contained. The area had not seen a large fire since 2003, and flames were consuming grass and oak woodlands, Cal Fire said.
The 1,200-acre Point Fire that that started Sunday near Healdsburg in the Wine Country was 40% contained by Tuesday afternoon. Cal Fire said two structures burned and a firefighter was injured fighting the fire and taken to a hospital. Evacuation“We made really great progress on that one overnight,” Cal Fire spokesman Will Powers said Tuesday.
Although some of the vegetation in burning areas, including oaks, was not as tinder-like as the state’s grasses, close proximity to flames can make it flammable so “the fire continues to burn and spread,” Burkett said.
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