Winds stoke California’s largest fire as blazes scorch West

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Erratic winds and the potential for dry lightning have added to the challenges facing firefighters battling California’s largest wildfire&comma; one of numerous blazes burning across the US West&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Over the weekend&comma; the massive Dixie Fire merged with the smaller Fly Fire and tore through the remote northern California community of Indian Falls&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The blaze had already levelled at least 16 houses and other structures&comma; but a new damage estimate was not immediately available because flames were still raging in the mountain area&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Fire behaviour has been so unpredictable&comma; it hasn’t been safe for inspectors to go in to work&comma;” said Mitch Matlow&comma; a fire spokesman&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Until things settle down&comma; we won’t know the extent of what’s burned&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Flames spread in remote areas with steep terrain crews cannot easily reach&comma; Mr Matlow said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Gusty winds hindered containment efforts and the problem could get worse with the predicted arrival later of pyrocumulus clouds — literally meaning &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fire clouds” — which can bring lightning and the risk of new ignitions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fire officials said the blaze had charred nearly 309 square miles of timber and brush in Plumas and Butte counties&comma; about two hours north east of Sacramento&period; It was 22&percnt; contained and more than 10&comma;000 homes were still under threat&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Authorities were hopeful that improving weather will help them continue to make progress against the nation’s largest wildfire&comma; the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was 53&percnt; contained after scorching 640 square miles of remote land&period; On Monday&comma; an additional crew of Oregon National Guardsmen were sent to help out the more than 2&comma;200 people battling the blaze&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The lightning-caused fire has burned at least 70 homes&comma; mainly cabins&comma; and 2&comma;000 residences were under evacuation orders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Montana&comma; four firefighters were released from hospital and a fifth was being treated at a burn centrey after a wildfire overran them last week&comma; authorities said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The five were building a defensive line at the Devil’s Creek Fire in Garfield County when winds shifted suddenly and blew flames back at them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;169476" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-169476" style&equals;"width&colon; 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south of Lake Tahoe&comma; continued to burn through timber and chaparral and threatened communities on both sides of the California-Nevada border&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The fire&comma; sparked by lightning on July 4 in Alpine County&comma; California&comma; has destroyed at least 23 buildings&comma; including more than a dozen in Nevada&period; It was 45&percnt; contained&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In north-central Washington state&comma; firefighters battled two blazes in Okanogan County that threatened hundreds of homes and again caused hazardous air quality conditions over the weekend&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>More than 85 large wildfires are burning across the country&comma; most of them in western states&comma; and have burned more than 2&comma;343 square miles of land&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e3ea14b8629">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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