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TRUCKEE, Calif. Containment of the Mosquito Fire has about doubled in the last two days, some evacuation orders have been rescinded and the smoke that was impacting air quality in the Truckee-Tahoe region is. ....
Dec 15, 2020 A portion of a back-burn a fire intentionally set by the hotshots in the direction of the oncoming wildfire on the North Complex. When the two fires meet, with nothing left around them to burn, they’ll extinguish each other. That’s the idea, anyway. Robert Langellier September 8, Afternoon Eight miles to the southwest, a plume of smoke stretched into the clean western sky, rising like bread. It looked like a cloud creating itself. A calm settled in among the Truckee Hotshots as we watched from a hilltop at the northern edge of the North Complex Fire. This was my first season and seventh fire on a U. S. Forest Service hotshot crew, a unit trained to fight the hottest and most remote parts of wildfires. We thought we were witnessing a typical blowout, when a fire crosses containment lines. “Well,” one of my crewmates said, “tomorrow’s going to suck.” ....