UPDATE: Carr Fire grows, now 6th most destructive in state history

Update at 7 p.m.

The Carr Fire has now become the sixth most destructive fire in California history as it has grown to 112,888 acres and destroyed 1,378 structures, Cal Fire reported Tuesday evening.

The fire, which started more than a week ago, has destroyed 965 homes.

Containment has moved up to 30 percent. Firefighters still don’t know when full containment is expected.

The fire started on July 23. Cause of the fire is mechanical failure of a vehicle.

The latest numbers pushed the Carr Fire ahead of last October’s Nuns Fire in Sonoma County as the sixth most destructive in state history. The Nuns Fire burned 54,382 acres and destroyed 1,355 structures.

Shifting winds, steep terrain, and fuels are still making spot fires an issue, Cal Fire said.

Firefighters will continue to build control lines to stop spot fires from igniting.

Winds are expected to increase into Wednesday.

Update at 5:35 p.m.

Sixteen of the 20 missing people have been found, Redding police said this afternoon.

The remaining missing people are:

Richard Bigby, of Redding; Bruce Brown, of Shasta; Justin Jones, of Redding; Glenda Prusa, of Redding.

Update at 4:55 p.m.

Residents living in the Montgomery Ranch area are free to return to their homes, according to Cal Fire officials.

This includes Texas Springs Road, Montgomery Ranch Road, Camino Del Encina Drive and all other roadways in the area.

Residents can access the area from Honey Bee Road to Texas Springs Road or Branstetter Lane.

Road closures are still in place in the following areas:

Texas Springs Road at Placer Road

Montgomery Ranch Road at Placer Road.

Cal Fire officials say there will be no access to Placer Road.

Update at 2:25 p.m.

According to the Redding Police Department and Shasta County Sheriff's Office, 20 people are still missing following the Carr Fire.

"The Carr Fire has shattered many lives in our community. We need your help putting the pieces back together," law enforcement officials stated in a joint press release.

Anyone with information on the people listed below should contact the Carr Fire Missing Persons Hotline at 530-225-4277.

The following people have been reported as missing:

Richard Bigby - Redding

Mary Boyd - Redding

Joan Bradshaw – Old Shasta

Bruce Brown - Old Shasta

Westley Davis - Redding

Bradford Foster - Redding

Eleanor Homewood - Redding

Frank Jaramillo - Old Shasta

Reita Jolley - Redding

Justin Jones - Redding

Ernest Odum - French Gulch

Janet Odum - French Gulch

Jerry Olstrander - Redding

Glenda Prusa - Redding

Maria Rada - Keswick

Daniel Richards – Redding

Steven Rievas - Redding

Margaret Steddom - Old Shasta

George Thompson – Keswick

Ann Thompson - Keswick

Update at 1:50 p.m.

Cal Fire has lifted evacuations for Happy Valley.

Mandatory evacuations remain in place for Igo and Ono.

Gas point Road is open to through traffic.

Areas west of Platina Road and north of Placer Road are still under mandatory evacuation.

Road closures are in the following areas:

Intersection of Placer and Platina roads

Intersection of Clear Creek and Cloverdale roads

Update at 1:30 p.m.

Red light camera tickets issued Thursday night and Friday in the City of Redding will be dismissed, according to Redding Police Chief Roger Moore.

Moore issued the statement on the Redding Police Department Facebook page.

"Due to the circumstances surrounding the evacuation of the Carr Fire, all red light camera tickets issued in the City of Redding from 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 26, through 6:00 a.m. on Friday, July 27, will be dismissed," the Facebook post read.

Thursday night, multiple evacuations were issued in Redding as the fire kept closer.

Update at 1 p.m.

Officials have opened up SR 151 from Shasta Dam to Sacramento Street in City of Shasta Lake, according to the California Department of Transportation.

UPDATE: SR 151 is now OPEN from Shasta Dam to Sacramento Street in the City of Shasta Lake. #CarrFire — Caltrans District 2 (@CaltransD2) July 31, 2018

Update at noon

While the investigation into the cause of the Carr Fire continues, no one has been arrested and it doesn't appear to arson-related, according to the National Park Service.

Fire investigators are not looking for suspects related to the cause of the fire, since the people connected to the cause of the blaze were at the scene when firefighters arrived, said Matt Switzer, a spokesman for the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, where the fire started.

The fire started along Highway 299 near the Carr Powerhouse Road. A vehicle was pulling a trailer that had blown a tire, and sparks from the steel rim scraping along the road caught nearby vegetation on fire, Switzer said.

"You get a rim running on asphalt and you get sparks," Switzer said. "It's one of those things where it's hot and dry and you got friction."

He said the fire investigation does not entail looking for suspects, since the people pulling the trailer were at the scene.

But he said there are other issues investigators need to look into, considering the gravity of what happened after the fire.

"With the range and scope of the fire, you don't want to make any mistakes," he said.

To date, the fire has killed six people, burned more than 110,000 acres and destroyed 1,236 buildings — of those, 884 are homes.

The estimated loss on those homes is $300 million, according to a Redding real estate broker, Josh Barker of ReMax of Town & Country.

Barker's estimate is based on home values in the destroyed neighborhoods and average sales prices in 2017.

Meanwhile, total suppression costs have also reached $25.4 million.

Update at 11 a.m.

The Carr Fire has become the second most expensive fire in California, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

As of Tuesday, the fire has racked up $25.4 million in suppression costs since it started July 23. Only the Ferguson Fire, which is burning in the Sierra Nevada near Yosemite, has cost more, at $64.3 million.

The figures include only suppression costs, not the amount of other damage caused by the fires.

The Ferguson Fire is 57,041 acres, compared to the Carr Fire, at 110,154, but the Ferguson Fire started 10 days before the Carr Fire.

The Ferguson Fire currently has 3,638 people working on the fire, down from the 3,766 that had been assigned to the fire.

The Carr Fire currrently has 3,607 people working on the fire, according to the interagency fire center.

Update at 10:05 a.m.

The River Park Highlands subdivision is now open to residents.

Cal Fire says residents should use Benton Drive to get home there.

Update at 9:30 a.m.

Road closures at Placer Street from Thompson Lane to Cumberland road have been opened, according to the California Highway Patrol Traffic Incident Information Page.

Update at 7:15 a.m.

The Carr Fire's scale of destruction continues to grow.

Officials on Tuesday estimated the deadly fire's size at 110,154 acres, or about 172 square miles, with containment at 27 percent.

Cal Fire also increased the number of homes and buildings the fire has wiped since it was started on July 23, hit Redding last Thursday and moved to Trinity County on Monday.

At least 884 homes, four businesses and 348 other structures have been destroyed, bringing the total count to 1,236. Another 225 structures — 169 homes included — have been damaged.

At a morning briefing, Cal Fire incident commander, Brett Gouvea was cautiously optimistic about the progress crews have made to bring the fire under control.

"We're turning the corner. I hate saying those things (because) this thing has made me a liar so many times," he said.

Firefighters are focused on a "direct threat to Lewiston," officials said at the briefing.

Thirteen helicopters are on the fire Tuesday, dropping buckets of water from the air.

Firefighters holding the line in the Redding area on the #CARRFire today. pic.twitter.com/DKf2N8dSVS — Damon Arthur (@damonarthur_RS) July 31, 2018

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Carr Fire update: What we know for Tuesday

While many residents were allowed to return to their homes after some Carr Fire evacuations were lifted Monday, many other residents are still unsure if their homes survived.

The latest estimate of homes lost is 818, with an estimate of another 314 structures destroyed, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

An update of the size of the fire and damage to buildings is expected by around 7 a.m. The most recent size estimate puts the blaze at 103,772 acres, with containment line around 23 percent of the fire.

The Shasta County Sheriff's Office posted on Facebook an online tool from Cal Fire that lets homeowners look up their property to determine if their home survived the fire.

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Sheriff's officials caution Cal Fire is still updating information and the status of some structures may change. Go to https://tinyurl.com/carrfirestructuremap to see an interactive map of structures affected by the fire.

The icons on the map indicate the current known status of the structure.

Addresses may be entered into search bar to find a specific location, according to the sheriff's office.

An assistance center to help victims of the Carr Fire will open Thursday through Aug. 8 at Shasta High School in Redding, the sheriff's office announced Monday.

The center will be open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily to provide recovery services to residents affected by the fire. Shasta High is at 2500 Eureka Way.

The Carr Fire has become the most destructive fire in Shasta County history.

With a total 1,132 structures destroyed, the Carr Fire has become the most destructive in Shasta County history, exceeding the 1999 Jones Fire, which destroyed 954 buildings, per Cal Fire's list of "Top 20 Most Destructive California Wildfires" released in January.

The toll the Carr Fire has taken now puts it as the seventh most destructive fire in California history, per the Cal Fire list.

Evacuations were lifted Monday in these areas:

Eureka Way to Buenaventura Boulevard.

Buenaventura Boulevard from Highway 299 (Eureka Way) to Highway 273.

Teton Road including the White Hawk Subdivision.

Canyon Creek Drive including the Country Heights subdivision.

All surface streets off Westside Road including El Reno Lane, Kenyon Drive, Branstetter Lane and Cedars Road.

Branstetter Lane to Texas Spring Road encompassing roads on Branstetter Lane.

Highway 273 at Westwood Drive including The Westwood Subdivision.

Clear Creek Road from Highway 273 to Honey Bee Road.

The Happy Valley Community except for Cloverdale Road west of Heavenly Valley Lane.

All residences on China Gulch Drive from Canyon Road to Oak Street and Oak Street south to the intersection of Cloverdale Road.

Hawthorn Avenue from Happy Valley Road to Oak Street.

Cloverdale Road at Heavenly Valley Lane will remain closed and all areas west of this closure will remain under mandatory evacuations.

The communities south of Lake Boulevard from Market Street to Oasis Road with

the exception Keswick Dam Road and Quartz Hill Road.

the exception Keswick Dam Road and Quartz Hill Road. The following roads along Lake Boulevard will reopen: Masonic Avenue, Clay Street, Saint Marks Street, Panorama Drive, Tamarack Drive, Santa Rosa Way.

Benton Drive will be open from Market Street to Quartz Hill Road with the

exception ion of River Park Drive.

exception ion of River Park Drive. Quartz Hill Road will be open from Market St. to Benton Drive.

Court Street will open from Riverside Drive to Quartz Hill Road.

City of Shasta Lake with exception of Summit City.

Oasis Road west of Interstate 5 to Lake Boulevard.

Pine Grove at Iron Horse Road will remain closed and all areas west of

this closure in the Summit City proper will remain under mandatory

evacuation.

this closure in the Summit City proper will remain under mandatory evacuation. SR-151 (Shasta Dam Blvd) at Sacramento Street will remain closed and

all areas west of this closure in Summit City proper will remain under

mandatory evacuation.

all areas west of this closure in Summit City proper will remain under mandatory evacuation. Oasis Road at Lake Blvd will remain closed and all areas on both sides of

Lake Blvd north of this closure will remain under mandatory evacuation.

Lake Blvd north of this closure will remain under mandatory evacuation. Douglas City and communities along SR-299 East to Poker Bar Road.

Poker Bar Road northwest to Union Hill Road.

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