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“You still have some potential for some plume development, but it won’t be as severe as what we’ve seen the past couple of weeks.The 2020 California wildfire year was characterized by record-setting wildfires that burned across the state of California as measured during the modern era of wildfire management and record keeping. “The hotter it is, the worse it can be,” he said. With temperatures dropping into the 80s at the highest elevations and 90s in the foothills by midweek, that plume-dominated fire potential is expected to decrease, Gomberg said. The hot air and rising smoke can become so powerful that they overcome outside influences and control the fire’s weather, making it more extreme and unpredictable as a plume-dominated fire. When there’s a large fire on a day with little wind, rising hot air can play an outsize role in influencing what the fire does, experts say. Though cooler air has an obvious benefit for the crews outside, it also can limit the fire’s potential behavior, Gomberg said. Those with heart disease, asthma or other respiratory conditions were advised to limit outdoor activities, the county Department of Public Health said in a news release.Ĭonditions around the fire are expected to cool later in the week, said National Weather Service meteorologist David Gomberg. The fire continued to wreak havoc on the region’s air quality, with officials forecasting it would be unhealthy through the weekend for those in parts of the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys, as well as the San Gabriel Mountains, and unhealthy for sensitive people in many other places in Los Angeles County. The fire has burned 115,548 acres, was 84% contained and has destroyed 87 homes and 83 other structures as of Sunday, though that number could rise as teams continue to perform damage assessments, officials said.
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Wilson burned Saturday, producing a smoke plume. Fire officials said a 300-acre internal island of unburned fuel northeast of Mt. In the Los Angeles area, crews fighting the Bobcat fire in the Angeles National Forest said they were mostly focusing on mopping up and strengthening containment lines Sunday. The North Complex fire, which killed 15 people after it raced into the towns of Berry Creek and Feather Falls, was 317,459 acres and 83% contained Sunday. The fire’s southern and western flanks, closest to large population centers, have been tamped down, but the fire’s eastern edge flared up overnight and jumped a bulldozed containment line, the fire’s operations commander, Don Fregulia, said in a morning update. The August Complex fire has burned 985,304 acres and was 51% contained Sunday morning.įire officials have reported 100% containment of two other large fire complexes that were sparked by lightning in mid-August - the 396,624-acre SCU Lightning Complex fire in Santa Clara, Alameda and Stanislaus counties, and the 363,220-acre LNU Lightning Complex fire in Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Yolo and Solano counties.įire crews on Sunday also reported progress against the Creek fire, burning in the Sierra National Forest, which was 315,413 acres and 62% contained.
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On both flanks of the fire, crews challenged by rugged terrain are building contingency lines - a more distant, secondary defensive line away from the fire. Until then, much of firefighters’ efforts will be focused on the fire’s northern and western zones, where the persistently warm conditions in recent days have pushed the flames over containment lines, up steep hills and into treetops. Though winds will continue to push the fire around on hilltops and sour air in the valleys with smoke, the ridge of high pressure that’s been keeping the air warm and dry will be displaced by midweek with cooler, more humid air that will also feed moisture back into the vegetation during the night, according to Sunday’s forecast.