Park Fire Update

Here’s a Park Fire update issued by CalFire at 11:55 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 17.

CalFire reports the Park Fire has blackened 429,263 acres Butte, Tehama, Shasta and Plumas counties and is 50 percent contained.

Situation summary
The Park Fire is being managed under Unified Command with CalFire and the Lassen National Forest.

Over the next several days, CalFire IMT 4 will transition management of the fire to CalFire IMT 6, that will officially take over at 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 19. This scheduled rotation is to ensure the well-being of our team members. CalFire IMT 6 will continue with containment, fire suppression repair and community safety efforts. A big thanks to both CalFire IMT 3 and IMT 4 for the tremendous work they have been able to accomplish, and continued success to Calfire IMT 6 as they assume operational management and control.

Good overnight humidity recovery assisted with minimal fire activity. Heavy fuels and hazardous trees continue to burn within the fire perimeter. Progress is difficult due to steep and inaccessible terrain. Extended effort remains in the area south of Mineral as crews continue to remove hazardous trees and increasing mop-up depth.

Extended effort remains in the northeast portion. The southern three-quarters of the incident is in repopulation and recovery phase. Please be cautious on the roadways as repopulations are occurring.

The Park Fire has burned 113,744 acres on the Lassen National Forest.

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: 893 (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).

Road Closures
Tehama and Shasta counties
Highway 172 between Mineral and Hole in The Ground Campground.
Highway 89 between Highway 36 and Summit Lake.
Keep in mind that some areas off Highway 32 remain under evacuation warnings and those areas remain closed.