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A wildfire crept within a few miles of hundreds of homes in far Northern California, but a feared surge toward a forest community had yet to materialize for most of Tuesday, officials said.
“It hasn’t made any significant runs up to this point,” fire information officer Anne Jeffrey said.
Low humidity and gusty winds were descending on the area of the blaze in the Klamath National Forest and were expected to remain through Wednesday evening.
That brought some swirling growth to the blaze by the afternoon but not near populated areas.
“Where it’s the most active is not close to homes,” Jeffrey said.
About 250 homes were under mandatory evacuation orders, with nearly 700 more considered threatened.
The fire was about 2½ miles from the community of Hamburg. It had burned through 100 square miles and containment efforts were in early stages.
Combined with unstable air, it could generate a smoke column that could push embers as far as 2 miles, jumping containment lines and starting spot fires near some of the threatened homes, fire information officer Paul Gibbs said.
“We saw these conditions a few days ago, but the fire was much farther away from the communities. Now it’s much closer,” he said. “If it does that again, then you might have potential to reach these communities.”
The fire is among a number of lightning-sparked blazes that began in the area in mid-August. The others are either contained or nearly contained.
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