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What we know about smoke hanging over the North State on Tuesday. Wheres it from? How long will it last?

The Smith River wildfire complex has passed 70,000 acres, and over the weekend the fire reached the edge of the evacuated community of Gasquet.

Some zones affected by the Happy Camp Complex have been split in two and downgraded from evacuation orders to evacuation warnings. Others have had evacuation warnings lifted.

Heres what we know Monday about fires burning near communities in national forests in Siskiyou and Trinity counties.

The Smith River wildfire complex has passed 75,000 acres.

The Happy Camp Complex consists of the following fires: Head, Den, Scott, Gold, Townsend, Elliot, Canyon, Aubrey, Malone, Ufish, Block and Lake.

Heres what we know about wildfires burning in Siskiyou, Trinity, Humboldt and Del Norte counties on Friday.

A red flag warning for a large swath of Northern California has been issued by the National Weather Service out of Eureka, expecting more lightning into the early hours of Friday amid dry conditions.

An evacuation warning has been issued for Zone SIS-1236 (south of Hamburg).

Wet weather on Monday helped dampen the ground around fires burning in the North State, giving firefighters a chance to bolster containment lines.