Massive Fire Almost Out After 71 Days
Thanks to heavy rain last week, a fire that burned 139,000 acres of timber and brush and covered most of Northern California with smoke is nearly out, 71 days after an August lightning storm sparked the first flames.
The Big Bar fire, which started as four separate lightning fires in sparsely populated coastal mountains 240 miles north of San Francisco, cost more than $70 million to fight and destroyed timber valued at $90.6 million, Forest Service spokesman Jack Horner said Monday.
There were no serious injuries and no homes destroyed, though several towns were threatened.
At its peak in September, 3,355 firefighters were fighting the fire.
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