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The River and Ranch Fires began Friday, July 27, and continue to threaten portions of Lake County.
Consequences have been widespread, including the closure of most Lakeport-based county offices and the Lakeport branch of the Superior Court for the full week of July 30, as Lake County News has reported.
On Monday, Aug. 6, all Lakeport-based county offices and the Lakeport branch of the Lake County Superior Court will reopen.
Offices in all areas of the county no longer under mandatory evacuation will also resume business.
County government and court leaders said they have undertaken considerable efforts to ensure the Lake County Courthouse building at 255 N. Forbes St. in Lakeport and other county offices are ready for the resumption of regular duties.
The fire began Tuesday 10 miles east of Covelo on the Mendocino National Forest.
Mendocino National Forest spokeswoman Punky Moore said firefighters reached 60 percent containment on the incident Sunday.
She said the fire remains at 972 acres.
There are 144 personnel assigned to the incident to patrol, extinguish smoldering vegetation near containment lines – commonly referred to as mopping up – and to fell snags that pose a threat to firefighters working on the fireline, Moore said.
She said this incident is aided by personnel from the US Forest Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Arizona and the private sector.
“The interagency cooperation on this incident showed how individual agencies come together and work effectively to meet one set of objectives on incidents no matter the location or jurisdiction,” said Incident Commander Dale Shippelhoute.
On Sunday, minimal fire behavior was observed with mostly smoldering and creeping. A warming trend will return with no precipitation in the forecast, Moore said.
Mandatory evacuations were lifted for the North M1 Road from the Eel River Station to the Indian Dick Station. Moore said an evacuation advisory remained in place for this area on Sunday.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. -- Sunday morning, County of Lake Information Technology director Shane French has re-established the county's live camera feed from Buckingham peak.
French moved the feed to Youtube so more people can get a bird's eye view of conditions in the county, a previous stream platform had proved unreliable, according to French.
The camera has been set to a 360-degree pan which reveals an expansive view of Lake County and captures weather conditions as well as views of the fires.
Although the high definition view is affected by smoky haze from the fires, billowing clouds of smoke drifting toward the East and South are clearly visible.
French advises the stream remains in development and may go down while tinkering happens and a stable, long-term solution is implemented.
He volunteers that the camera dome could do with a bit of cleaning and when he's able he'll be going to the top of the mountain to tidy up. "I guess I have an excuse now," he said.
Two other live streams located at Lucerne Harbor park are currently down, likely power loss or other outside influence.
Those streams, once reactivated, will be available at konoctibaitshack.com. The operator of the park streams, John Jensen of Lake County News, says going into the area for the purpose of restoring the streams isn't a high priority at the moment.
At the moment these are the only embeddable streams in Lake County that Jensen or French are aware of, Jensen asks that if other embeddable streams exist to let him know through Lake County News.
Residents north of the Scotts Valley Road and Hill Road intersection, east of Hill Road, south of Nice-Lucerne Cutoff Road, and west of Clear Lake may return home.
This will includes all driveways and streets accessed from Hill Road and Lakeshore Blvd. to the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. -- Cal Fire reports that crews had some success increasing containment on the River Fire Saturday night and containment lines were holding.
Some additional structures have been destroyed since Saturday.
The Mendocino Complex has grown in size to 254,982 acres, with total containment at 33 percent. No injuries or fatalities have been reported. Cal Fire’s Saturday night report set the complex of the Ranch and River fires at 229,006 acres.
Overnight the Ranch Fire grew to 207,319 acres with containment at 23 percent while the River fire acreage remained unchanged overnight at 47,663 acres and containment at 50 percent.
The fires continue to threaten 15,300 structures while 68 residences 62 other structures have been destroyed.
Damaged structures are now reported at 12 residences damaged with 14 other structures reported damaged.
The Ranch Fire continues to grow in a South-East direction and crews will continue to be embedded in the communities providing structure protection.
The Pillsbury Lake Basin still continues to be threatened and crews are working strategically protect this area.
The town of Lucerne, among others on the Northshore, has been spared but the fire has done damage in Spring Valley.
LUCERNE, Calif. – As the Ranch fire continued its Northshore run on Saturday, hundreds of firefighters were on the line to protect structures and try to stop the fire from burning into the town of Lucerne.
The video above gives a brief overview of the work done on Saturday to help protect the Lucerne community from the Ranch fire, part of the Mendocino Complex, which appeared to move east but later was reported to have done more damage in Spring Valley.
The video was completed by John Jensen of Lake County News.