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>From this morning's S.F. Chronicle:
Sweating under temperatures that topped 100 degrees, more than 2,600
firefighters continued battling the Bay Area's first major wildfire of the
summer on Monday and gained ground on the blaze that has grown to about
12,200 acres in Sonoma and Lake counties.
Calm winds during the day helped the firefighters while they cut lines
through the thick manzanita, timber and dry grasses to break the
northeastern expansion of the flames, said Linda Galvin of the California
Department of Forestry. Ash fell in Healdsburg, Windsor and as far west as
Occidental.
The blaze, called the Geysers Fire, was 35 percent contained with full
containment expected by 8 a.m. Wednesday.
No homes or vehicles were lost Monday.
CDF spokeswoman Karen Terrill said 53 new fires had erupted in California
over the 24 hours ending Monday at 4 p.m. Of those, only the Geysers Fire
and the 189-acre Hazen Fire in Tehama County were not contained.
The Geysers Fire started at 5:24 p.m. Friday near the geothermal electric
plants northeast of Geyserville and engulfed 7,500 acres by Saturday. Four
homes were lost, eight outbuildings burned and 12 vehicles lost -- all in
the Pine Flat Road area. By Monday night, the blackened hillsides exceeded
12,000 acres.
As temperatures soared to 102 degrees in Geyserville and Healdsburg, the
extreme dry and windy conditions prolonged "red flag'' fire warnings for
the North and East Bay.
Six firefighters have been injured, none seriously, said Janet Marshall, a
spokeswoman for CDF.
Investigators were looking into the cause of the fire, which started near
Calpine Corp. geothermal energy fields. Fire suppression costs were
estimated at $2.5 million, and federal aid had been promised.
Read whole story here:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/07/FIRES.TMP&nl=top
>>Nowhere near there, as far as I can tell. Napa and Sonoma are in
>>Northern California. The fires generally hit southern California,
>>although there's one in Mariposa, near Yosemite, which isn't near
>>where you'll be.
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