UPDATE: 53 Firefighers arrive in U.S. to help Carr and Other | Carr Fire more than doubles in size over Whiskeytown Lake

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UPDATE: 53 Firefighers arrive in U.S. to help Carr and Other | Carr Fire more than doubles in size over Whiskeytown Lake

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Carr Fire more than doubles in size near Redding, California

Map showing the perimeter of the Carr Fire at 1:45 a.m. PDT July 28, 2018. The yellow line was the perimeter 25 hours before

Firefighters on Friday were able to minimize any additional growth of the Carr Fire into Redding but the fire spread significantly on the north and sides. Thursday night CAL FIRE reported the fire had burned 28,000 acres. A 1:45 a.m. mapping flight on Saturday showed it had expanded to over 80,000 acres.

Early Saturday morning the fire was very active two to five miles south of Highway 299 burning toward Placer Road near Igo, and on the north side of 299 it had grown five miles north of French Gulch.

More: http://wildfiretoday.com/tag/carr-fire/
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53 firefighters from Australia and New Zealand arrive in Redding

The Australian and New Zealand firefighters who arrived in the U.S. last weekend to help fight the wildfires spreading throughout the country have been deployed to blazes in Northern California and Oregon, the National Interagency Fire Center said Monday.

Fifty-three of the nearly 150 specialists who were requested by U.S. officials last week arrived at the Northern California Geographic Area Coordination Center in Redding on Monday, NIFC spokeswoman Carrie Bilbao said, while the remaining firefighters were sent to Redmond, Ore.

About two-thirds of the international reinforcements in Redding were sent to the Mendocino Complex Fires, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Kerry Greene said, and the remaining third stayed nearby to fight the Carr Fire. They’ll be in the area for up to 30 days, she said.

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Re: UPDATE: 53 Firefighers arrive in U.S. to help Carr and Other | Carr Fire more than doubles in size over Whiskeytown

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