US EditionContainment of Pickett Fire in California's Napa County Grows to 51% as Firefight Enters 2nd Week
Firefighters have increased containment to 41% after eight days, aided by favorable weather and over 2,400 personnel working in challenging terrain, officials said.
- On Friday, Cal Fire reported the Pickett Fire, Napa County, has burned 6,803 acres and is 51% contained near Calistoga.
- Cal Fire investigators are probing whether improperly discarded ashes from a winery oven sparked the Pickett Fire and have interviewed a vineyard employee and independent contractor at Hundred Acre Wines near 2339 Pickett Rd.
- More than 2,400 fire personnel with engines, helicopters, dozers work amid a marine layer and higher humidity, while evacuations and road closures persist and five structures are destroyed.
- Napa County's agricultural commissioner estimated $65 million in damages, with a county survey assessing roughly 1,500 acres damaged, just over 3% of Napa Valley's production land.
- Much of the burn area overlaps the Glass Fire's late September 2020 footprint, and the Pickett Fire as the largest Bay Area wildfire this year raises concerns about crop damage, prompting Napa Valley vintners to test grapes for smoke taint.
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Containment of Pickett Fire in California's Napa County grows to 51% as firefight enters 2nd week | News Channel 3-12
By Tim Fang Click here for updates on this story NAPA COUNTY (KPIX) — More than a week after the Pickett Fire started in California’s Napa County, firefighters are making progress on the largest wildfire to burn in the Bay Area so far this year. According to a Cal Fire update posted Friday night, the fire burning near the town of Calistoga has burned 6,803 acres and is 51% contained. Five structures have been destroyed, while another 187 str…
Containment of Pickett Fire in California's Napa County grows to 51% as firefight enters 2nd week
By Tim Fang Click here for updates on this story NAPA COUNTY (KPIX) — More than a week after the Pickett Fire started in California’s Napa County, firefighters are making progress on the largest wildfire to burn in the Bay Area so far this year. According to a Cal Fire update posted Friday night, the fire burning near the town of Calistoga has burned 6,803 acres and is 51% contained. Five structures have been destroyed, while another 187 str…
Pickett Fire 51% contained; five structures destroyed
(KRON) — The Pickett Fire burning in Napa County continues to hold at 6,803 acres and the fire is now 51% contained, according to firefighters. Grass fire shuts down all lanes of EB I-580 in Livermore As of Thursday night, five destroyed buildings have been found inside the fire’s perimeter. Incident Commander Richard Tovar announced during a livestream on the Cal Fire Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit Facebook page Friday evening that four outbuildings and…
Napa County's Pickett Fire Now 37% Contained
The Pickett Fire in Napa County is now 37 percent contained. That’s an eight percent improvement from Thursday morning. The more than one-week-old fire near Calistoga has remained at about 68-hundred acres for the past several days. It is mostly burning grass, brush and dead timber within the footprint of the 2020 Glass Fire. Cal Fire now confirms five structures have been destroyed, but it’s unclear if any were homes. There are no injuries. The…
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