Gov. Newsom’s Wildfire 'Priority Project' Didn’t Contain The Lava Fire, Leaving Evacuees Stuck in Traffic The Lava Fire outside Weed, Calif. Thursday, July 1, 2021. Andrew Nixon / CapRadio The order to leave came in the early afternoon. April Williams was asleep when she heard a bang, bang, bang on her door. The 27-year-old, part-time childcare worker lifted her head and peaked out the window of her home, nestled among single-story ranch-style houses and ponderosa pine trees in Lake Shastina, a small town in the shadow of Mount Shasta near the Oregon border. The sky was red and full of smoke.