Firefighters try to stop flames from the Mill Fire spreading on a property. Photograph: Hung T Vu/The Record Searchlight/APAround 100 homes and other structures have been destroyed in a Northern California wildfire that put thousands of people under evacuation orders.
Rebecca Taylor, of Roseburg Forest Products, said it is unclear if the fire started near or on company property. A large empty building had burned, she said, but all employees were evacuated and none have reported injuries.Cal Fire Siskiyou Unit chief Phil Anzo said crews worked all day and night to protect structures in Weed and in a subdivision to the east known as Carrick Addition.
Weather conditions improved overnight and firefighters were able to get 20 per cent containment, but another blaze, the Mountain Fire, that broke out on Friday north-west of Weed grew substantially. At about the time the blaze started, power outages were reported that affected some 9,000 customers, and several thousand remained without electricity late into the night, according to an outage website for power company PacifiCorp, which said they were due to the wildfire.
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