Firefighters have been able to build containment around several destructive wildfires burning in California.
Firefighters have been able to build containment around several destructive wildfires burning in California.
Officials said Sunday that the 48-square-mile (124-square-kilometer) blaze on the California-Oregon border known as the Klamathon fire is now 25 percent contained. It’s one of many fires burning around the drought-ridden states in the U. S. West.
The fire killed one woman in her home and destroyed 72 structures, including homes.
Crews have built at least 80 percent containment on a wildfire that destroyed 20 homes in Santa Barbara County and a central San Diego County fire that burned 18 structures.
The state’s largest blaze, the 138-square-mile (357-square-kilometer) County Fire, is 57 percent contained. It has destroyed 10 structures since it broke out June 30.
Other major fires in the state are close to being fully contained.
