Raging Mosquito Fire Jumps Over American River; Structures Burn In Volcanoville

CBS San Francisco

September 9, 2022

Winds from a massive pyrocumulus cloud, soaring thousands of feet and visible in some parts of the Bay Area, whipped the Mosquito Fire into a raging inferno, driving a wall of flames across the American River and into the small mountain community of Volcanoviile.

By Thursday night, the blaze had grown to 13,705 acres and had zero containment. The fire is burning in the Tahoe National Forest and now extends into both Placer and El Dorado counties. Evacuations have been ordered in both counties.

Cal Fire Placer County operations chief Nolan Hill told a community gathering Thursday night that the strong winds drove the flames thousands of acres in a matter of hours, leaping across the American River near the Oxbow Reservoir ignition point and into Volcanoville.

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