Mosquito fire in Northern California rages west of Lake Tahoe
Fueled by critically dry brush and timber and boosted by record-setting heat, a fire in the foothills east of Sacramento doubled in size Thursday, sending smoke billowing east toward Lake Tahoe and western Nevada. By the afternoon, the fire had wafted a giant pyrocumulus cloud over the Sierra, jumped the Middle Fork of the American River and was burning its way toward the hamlet of Volcanoville in El Dorado County. Also Thursday, PG&E filed a report with the state disclosing “electrical activity” on one of its transmission lines near where the Mosquito fire ignited Tuesday evening, near Foresthill in Placer County. By 8:13 p.m., the blaze had mushroomed to 13,705 acres, with no containment, after starting the day at more than 6,800 acres.
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