NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Cooler weather and precipitation have allowed firefighters around California to make major progress on wildland fire incidents.
More than 8,000 firefighters have increased containment on the blazes thanks to mild weather and more than an inch of rain in the past week, according to Cal Fire's Monday Fire Situation Report.
Cal Fire reported that only three major incidents across the state are still burning.
As of Monday night, the King Fire, near Pollack Pines in El Dorado and Placer counties, had burned 97,099 acres and was 92 percent contained. It began Sept. 13.
The state's biggest fire, the Happy Camp Complex in Siskiyou County, began Aug. 11. It's burned more than 132,000 acres and is 97-percent contained.
The Meadow Fire, near Yosemite National Park, was 98-percent contained at just under 4,800 acres.
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See the full report above.