After a busy week, Cal Fire is warning of a possible “rough” fire season ahead. So far this year, there have been two-thousand-156 wildfires statewide. They have burned nearly 90-thousand acres of land and destroyed 22 structures. As of Wednesday, there are 14 active wildfires in California. The largest is the Sites Fire, which has burned more than 19-thousand acres of land in Colusa County and is 15-percent contained.
Meanwhile, crews are making progress in their battle against two vegetation fires in Lake County. The Ham Fire started Wednesday afternoon in the community of Nice. Crews got the fire contained in about two hours, after it burned one acre of land. Evacuation orders were then downgraded to warnings. The other fire, the Scotts Fire, started about an hour before the Ham Fire. It has burned 50 acres of land in a rural area northwest of Lakeport. The good news, though, that as of this morning, it has been fully contained.