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SMOKE from the Rock Creek Fire turns orange as the sun sets Saturday as viewed from Camino. Photo by Mike DeBord
The Rock Fire at Highway 193 and Rock Creek Road is nearing full containment.
The fire, which was reported to Cal Fire at 5:29 p.m. Saturday, is currently burning 45 acres but is 95 percent contained, the Cal Fire Twitter announced Monday morning.
The fire has affected 900 residents in the Georgetown area, a press release said, and PG&E announced that power lines had been damaged. There are no evacuations in effect.
According to Teri Mizuhara of Cal Fire, a single structure had been threatened, but was not damaged. The fire was expected to be contained by Monday evening and under full control Tuesday, she said.
There are about 200 personnel fighting the fire.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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OldFireEaterSeptember 18, 2012 - 1:53 pm
Wow what a milk job considering there hasn't been a smoke on this one since the morning after! Someone really needs to look at CDF's budget games. this is stupid and somebody is getting gamed
translator, please!September 18, 2012 - 2:00 pm
OldFireEater: In plain English please! Are you saying that the fire report has been "dramatized".
OldFireEaterSeptember 18, 2012 - 2:53 pm
No, I'm say CDF (or whatever they spent a fortune on changing their "handle" to) are milking the state emergency fund! Contained means the fire has a line around it of some type to what ever percentage stated but not out. 60% contained means that there is a line around 60% of the fire. Controlled means they have it under control ie: out (because that is the best way to "control" a fire). This fire has had a line around it since pretty much the next morning and hasn't had any visible smoke since then either (I have a good view of it). Once a fire has been contained/controlled the clock starts ticking on how long they can charge it to the state emergency fund and these guys have been playing games with declaring a fire "contained" for a few years now and it's getting worse.
translator, please!September 18, 2012 - 3:13 pm
Gotcha!!!
Current FirefighterSeptember 19, 2012 - 10:18 am
You should check the date of this article (Wed Sept 19th)the fire was declared 100% contained on Monday evening(Sept 17th). Check the Calfire website. You should not expect a part-time newspaper that only puts out articles 4 days a week to have accurate information. If you still see crews out there they are in straight time and does not cost the state any addition money to the taxpayer because they are already on duty. The fire is in "Patrol status", which is something you as an oldfireeater should understand.
Current FirefighterSeptember 19, 2012 - 10:24 am
My mistake on the date of this article. The date I beleive is the 18th not the 19th. I will own up to that one.
Jim RiordanSeptember 19, 2012 - 11:44 am
Old FireEater or new fireEater, Thanks to all of you for helping us stay safe. I for one appreciate all of you. Want to keep the budgets down? Force every illegal out of my state, my schools, my food lines, and my voting booths.
hosedSeptember 20, 2012 - 2:17 pm
Right-o, Mr. Riordan, but with a caveat: Let's also curb some of these salaries and benefits of the self-aggrandized "fire eaters" (they eat pretty good stuff besides fire, as I see the gazillion dollar fire trucks parked at Safeway quite often, during any season of the year). The hours actually worked are slim in comparison to the private sector. Some of their salaries and benefits rival or exceed those of MD's. Then they retire extremely early compared to the normal working stiff who is forced to fund their extremely well paid next 30 or 40 years of leisure. Knock all that down by a third, increase the retirement age, and the line of well qualified men and women applicants would still be miles long, I can assure you. The political shennanigans involved in achieving this kingly compensation is worthy of extreme scrutiny, and overhaul. Time to get real, or go broke, period.