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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.
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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.
Mount Shasta Herald
An evacuation warning was in effect Tuesday through Wednesday for residents in the Whitney Creek area after a flash flood tumbled water and mud in the Lava Fire burn scar.
The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s office issued the warning at 6 p.m. Tuesday for areas of Juniper Terrace Road and Rising Hill Road in the Mount Shasta Vista subdivision due to a flash flood in Whitney Creek. It was lifted in the late afternoon on Wednesday.
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5 p.m. Wednesday: Whitney Creek evacuation warning lifted
The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office has lifted the evacuation warning in effect for communities in the Whitney Creek area.