Deadly Klamathon Fire forces Gov. Brown to declare state of emergency
A wildfire that leaped over the Klamath River before surging into the woodlands near the Oregon-California border claimed the first fire-season fatality in the state Friday morning, and kept fire crews racing to contain it all day.
The Klamathon Fire, which started near the tiny town of Hornbrook (Siskiyou County), has forced evacuations, damaged or destroyed at least 12 structures, and by Friday afternoon it had ravaged more than 8,000 acres and was only about 5 percent contained, according to local officials and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.