[UPDATE 7:18 p.m.]12 Acre Fire in Lake County

Sunday, 26 June 2022, 6:04 pm Matt LaFever 6 comments

Boyles Fire in Lake County. [Screenshot from AlertWildfire]

A vegetation fire in Clearlake called the Boyle Fires is threatening structures and forcing residents to be evacuated. The fire currently stands at 12 acres and firefighters are reporting it has the potential to grow to 20.

Multiple air resources are working on the Boyle Fire and evacuations have been ordered between Betz Drive and Wilkinson Avenue in Clearlake.

The fire currently stands at 12 acres and firefighters are reporting it has the potential to grow to 20 growing at a moderate rate of spread.

Initial reports from multiple callers described heavy black smoke in the area of 8th Street and Boyles Avenue. The winds are reportedly pushing the fire east.

Please remember that this story is unfolding. Information is being reported as we gather it. However, some of the information coming from witnesses and initial official reports could be wrong. We will do our best to get the facts but, in the case that something is inaccurate, we will update with correct information as soon as we can.

UPDATE 6:04 p.m.: Reports indicate firefighters have substantially slowed the progress of the fire but structures are still considered threatened. The fire is now estimated to be 15 acres in size and is growing at a slow rate of spread.

UPDATE 6:31 p.m.: Reports indicate that the fire is continuing to slow. Multiple aircraft are being released from the incident.

UPDATE 7:18 p.m.: The fire’s forward progress has officially been stopped. Firefighters are reporting a line has been established around the majority of the fire.

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Hick

3 years ago

Practice fire. It’s getting to be about that time of year. Hope everybody’s got the brush cut back.

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Country Joe

Reply to Hick

Spot on. Take each and every precaution…

Tony S

Brush cut back in Clearlake? No. The problem is the thousands of abandoned, dilapidated lots, in which there is literally thousands of tons of dead, dry, years old brush.

When the fire first started, I estimated the winds to have been around 12-15 mph, gusts nearly 20 mph, then the winds died down to nearly a standstill.

Had the winds NOT died down, and had the winds been blowing at 20-30 mph instead of 12-15 mph, the outcome could have been very, very different.

North westCertain license plate out of thousands c

We need more quick reaction chinook helicopters.
They can fight fire day or night.

This was NOT a practice fire, this was the real thing.

Do your best to protect yourselves folks.