Park Fire containment lines hold overnight, cooler temperatures expected next week

Park Fire update — 7:04 a.m., Sunday, Aug. 11.

According to CalFire, the Park Fire is 37 percent contained. It has blackened 429,188 acres in Butte, Tehama, Shasta and Plumas counites.

Status Update
Park Fire behavior was moderated overnight. With the exception of a few new small spot fires, containment lines have held. There have been pockets of unburned fuel and heavy dead and down fuels continue to burn out and threaten control lines.

The was improved humidity recovery overnight in the Mill Creek area. A slow cooling trend begins early next week as temperatures are expected to fall to near or even a few degrees below seasonal norms.

Firefighters continue to offensively engage the fire where possible to build control line, tie in line to previously constructed line and mop-up.

Lassen National Forest
Overnight, on the Park Fire, firefighters held the fire within the planning area south and east of Turner Mountain through use of night-capable aircraft and direct line construction. Higher humidity overnight aided in the fire fight.

Today, direct attack continues to extinguish active fire and strengthen control lines around the fire’s perimeter.

Unified partners have converged firefighters to completely suppress the Park Fire.

The Park Fire has burned 113,694 acres on the Lassen National Forest.

The current acreage is 429,188 in total
Butte County: 52,937 acres.
Tehama County: 376,251 acres.

Damage Inspection Teams have completed 100 percent of their assessments.

Between both counties, there are 641 destroyed structures and 52 damaged structures. The total number destroyed and damaged includes infrastructure.

Butte County
No damage: 882 (Residential, Comm, Minor, other structures).
Damaged: 47 (Residential, Comm, Minor, other structures).
Destroyed: 428 (Residential, Comm, Minor, other structures).

Tehama County
No damage: 391 (Residential, Comm, Minor, other structures).
Damaged: 5 (Residential, Comm, Minor, other structures).
Destroyed: 213 (Residential, Comm, Minor, other structures).