Officials warn also that nearly 5,000 structures remain threatened by the blaze and 3,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate. Another 3,000 residents have been placed under an evacuation warning that stretches to the Oregon border.Though the fire’s spread had slowed slightly by Monday, storms continued to bedevil firefighters. Her daughter, who lives nearby, managed to save a trunk full of jewelry.“I’ll be naked but laden with jewels,” Schwander joked. “And when severe heat waves do occur over dry forest areas, then they can translate into gigantic, fast-moving wildfires.”Evacuee Leland Erickson, 60, a military historian and trained intelligence analyst, said he put the odds of his property surviving at 80%. “We are refugees from a natural disaster.”____(Times staff writers Richard Winton and Gregory Yee contributed to this report.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 02, 2022 17:46 UTC