A sheriff’s deputy carries the remains of a McKinney fire victim from a destroyed home in Klamath National Forest. The McKinney fire, which has killed four people, has destroyed 132 structures including 87 homes as it scorched nearly 60,000 acres in the Klamath National Forest, officials said Friday. In the last 24 hours, officials with the Klamath National Forest said …
Angela Crawford watches the McKinney fire from her home in Klamath National Forest on Saturday. Thunderstorms and mudslides have hampered firefighters’ battle this week against the deadly McKinney fire in Klamath National Forest at the California-Oregon border, authorities said. Three inches of rain on the fire’s east flank caused mudslides and wreaked havoc for firefighters struggling to stop the steady …
A fast-moving wildfire near the California border with Oregon continued to rage out of control Sunday, burning tens of thousands of acres and prompting evacuation orders for neighboring communities. The McKinney fire is burning through heavy, drought-stressed timber in steep terrain in the Klamath National Forest west of Yreka, said Caroline Quintanilla, a public information officer. Mott, who works in …
Crews conduct broadcast burning — in which an area of land is set alight to mimic naturally occurring wildfire — as part of a federal research project in a unit of the Goosenest Adaptive Management Area in Klamath National Forest in 2010. “In areas where we didn’t do anything, the untreated controls, the predominant fire behavior was a crown fire …
