[env-trinity] August Complex Fire: Trinity County orders evacuations in Post Mountain, Trinity Pines area

[Tom Stokely]

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August Complex Fire: Trinity County orders evacuations in Post Mountain, Trinity Pines area
Matt BrannonRedding Record SearchlightNote to readers: This story is free to all as a public service to our communities. 
Trinity County officials have ordered evacuations in the Post Mountain and Trinity Pines area of the county Wednesday night because of "erratic" fire behavior in the North Zone of the August Complex.

"Please take care and leave immediately," read a Facebook post from the Trinity County Sheriff's Office and Shasta-Trinity National Forest officials. "Emergency vehicles will be on the roadways conducting evacuations, fire suppression and structure protection in the area. Please use caution while evacuating."

Shasta-Trinity NF at ShastaTrinityNF · 20h
1/2 Per the Trinity County Sheriff's Office and the Trinity County Office of Emergency Services, the area of the #PostMountain, #TrinityPines, is under an #evacuation Order. The evacuation area will be Hayfork Fairgrounds. @SixRiversNF @MendocinoNF #AugustComplex #NorthZone


Shasta-Trinity NF at ShastaTrinityNF
2/2 Fire behavior in your area is erratic and approaching your area. Please take care and leave immediately. Emergency vehicles will be on the roadways conducting evacuations, fire suppression and structure protection in the area. Please use caution while evacuating.
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What we know Wednesday about fires: North Complex now 6th largest wildfire

The evacuation area will be Hayfork Fairgrounds, according to officials. 

Highway 36 was still open as of 8 p.m. Wednesday, according to California Highway Patrol Dispatch.

Officials ordered the evacuations because the fire was moving north and had reached the top of Rattlesnake Ridge, according to Hannah Thompson-Welch, a public information officer with the August Complex North Zone response. 

Asked if the Hayfork area could become threatened, Thompson-Welch said it will depend on fire activity overnight. She said officials hope the fire stays south of Highway 36.  

She said people can get a sense of the fire's location via satellite data at a map on NWCG.gov, noting that map data can be delayed by about two and a half hours. 

Officials gave more details in a Facebook video posted Thursday morning.

"We did lose a big chunk on the south side of Rattlesnake Ridge yesterday, had multiple spot fires, and crews with limited resources could not keep up with it. They pulled down into Forest Glen to focus on structure protection," said Shannon Prather, who works with California Incident Management Team 5. 

"We're looking for opportunities right now to utilize an existing fuel break in the Post Mountain area to get some control lines around that to protect the community," he said.

The Trinity County Department of Transportation announced that all roads within the Trinity Pines subdivision were closed as of 6 p.m. Wednesday, including both county and private roads.

Trinity County DOT at TrinityDOT
As of 09/16/20 at 6:00 pm; All Roads within the Trinity Pines Subdivision are now closed due to Evacuation Order. This includes Trinity Pines Dr, Rattlesnake Rd, Post Mountain Road. This includes all County and Private Roads within the subdivision.
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On Monday, the Trinity County Sheriff's Office announced the Post Mountain, Trinity Pines area was under an evacuation warning, adding that people with medical conditions or livestock which would take extra time to move should leave now. 

August Complex Fire map

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Matt Brannon covers politics, the criminal justice system and breaking news for the Record Searchlight. Follow him on Twitter @MattBrannon_RS. Support local coverage and keep up with the North State for as little as $1 a month. Subscribe today. 

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