Lightning sparks hundreds of wildfires
Published: Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 10:34 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 11:16 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, June 21, 2008 at 11:16 a.m.
Fire crews are battling hundreds of wildfires across Mendocino and Humboldt counties caused by dry lightning strikes that swept through the area overnight Friday and Saturday morning.
“We’re inundated,” Cal Fire Capt. Pierre Boudreaux said from Howard Forest Station near Willits in Mendocino County, where more than 50 fires were burning Saturday morning.
Hundreds more were being chased in Humboldt County, pushing finite resources to the limit as the rising sun and forecasted triple-digit temperatures threatened to worsen conditions exponentially.
