Parts of Shingletown evacuated; Newsom declares emergency

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Parts of Shingletown evacuated; Newsom declares emergency

The fast-moving Park *****, which started Wednesday in Butte County, continues to ***** north toward Shasta County, forcing evacuations in Shingletown, Manton and as far east as Lassen Volcanic National Park.

As the 240,000-acre ***** continued to ***** out of control, areas south of Highway 44 were under evacuation orders. The massive wildfire has already scorched a large portion of eastern Tehama County as it continued to work its way north toward Mineral.Gov. Gavin Newsom declared an emergency Friday due to the damage from the blaze. The blaze is zero percent contained, has burned at least 134 structures and put another 4,200 structures under threat.

Here are more updates about the Park *****.

Park ***** making run through forest nears Shasta County

Earlier Friday evening, evacuation orders were extended to the Shingletown area from ****** Butte Road on the west to Viola on the east, according to the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office. Areas north of Highway 44 were under evacuation warnings.

Wilson Hill Road in Shingletown was closed south of Highway 44 at Woodridge Road, according to emergency scanner traffic.

Crews began to ****** the blaze north of Highway 36 Friday night, as it jumped the highway in two places near Paynes Creek, about 20 miles east of Red Bluff.

Officials at Lassen park started evacuating the park’s headquarters in Mineral on Friday afternoon as the Park ***** made its way up Highway 36 toward Lassen’s south entrance.

Lassen Park spokeswoman Sierra ***** said the park headquarters is about 7 miles from Lassen’s south entrance. She did not know how far the northeastern tip of the Park ***** was from the headquarters.

With the ***** heading toward Lassen, ***** said the park will be closed over the weekend because the road through Lassen will be used to evacuate people out of the area.

“Our original plan was to let the visitors taper off and to cancel upcoming reservations,” ***** said. “Now we have changed that to a mandatory evacuation and letting everybody know that is time to go. We are still waiting for the official go ahead from the director of the National Park Service. But we are headed that way.”

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***** said that Highway 89 will only be open to through traffic in the park because it will be used as “an evacuation route for communities to the south of the park.”

As the ***** continued to churn north, the Tehama County Sheriff’s Office issued an urgent evacuation warning Friday afternoon for residents in the Manton area, Sky Ranch and Paynes Creek along Highway 36.

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Flames and smoke rise from the Park ***** as it spreads in a wooded area along Highway 32 on the afternoon of Friday, July 26, 2024. The blaze continued to have explosive growth since it was sparked on Wednesday near Chico, fueled by bone dry conditions in California following extreme hot weather in July.

Those warnings later became orders for Manton area residents to evacuate. ***** crews reported the ***** making runs northward toward Highway 36 Friday afternoon east of Paynes Creek.

“The ***** is moving north. Get to a safe location. A Red Cross shelter is being set up at the Los Molinos Vets Hall, 7980 Sherwood Blvd. and should be fully open by 5 p.m.,” the sheriff’s office said. The Park ***** had skirted east of Los Molinos as of Friday afternoon.

Earlier in the afternoon, the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office had issued an evacuation warning for the Shasta County side of Manton. But those had been upgraded after 6 p.m. to orders. Crews were also being sent to put in ***** line in the Mineral area in eastern Tehama County on Friday night.

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The Park ***** on Friday, July 26, 2024 churned through forestland spreading north from the Chico area to just outside southern Shasta County. In this photo, it is seen after jumping Highway 36.

A 42-year-old Chico man has been arrested on suspicion of arson in connection to the *****, which started in Upper Bidwell Park in Chico. The Butte County District Attorney’s Office said the man slid a burning car down a canyon into the park, igniting the area and setting off the Park *****.

The ***** is making a trek similar to the massive Dixie ***** in 2021, when that ***** burned about 70% of Lassen Park.

The

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. The ***** started in the Feather River Canyon southeast of Chico, near where the 2018 Camp ***** ignited.

The ***** leveled the

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and threatened other mountain communities. It destroyed 1,329 structures in five northern counties, including Shasta and Tehama.

***** said about 30 people will be evacuated from the park’s headquarters.

“We are also working on removing the historical artifacts that are in the park,” ***** said.

Read more: ‘Just ******* us:’ Shasta County ***** conditions mimic those on the Park *****

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