Scorching more than 100 square miles, the Mosquito Fire is now California's largest blaze of 2022
in Placer and El Dorado counties. The massive blaze surpassed the size of the McKinney Fire that burned more than 93 square miles in California, in July and August. , put over 9,200 structures at risk as of Thursday, Cal Fire reported. So far, the blaze has destroyed over 70 structures, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Thousands have been ordered or warned to evacuate as the fire burned east of Foresthill, California.
"The fire made some significant runs, so it increased in size and they ended up stretching the line out a little bit farther, so the containment went down accordingly," McLean said."It's something that definitely can happen, especially the last few years with such volatility of the vegetation," he said.
"Hopefully, can make a little bit of inroads over the next couple of days because it does look like over the weekend, there's going to be a storm moving in to the West Coast," Feerick told USA TODAY.Conditions could turn windy ahead of the storm, causing problems for firefighters, he said. Any rain arriving with the storm would"certainly help matters," he added.
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