Fire crews quickly stopped the progress on March 31 of a wildfire burning on farmland in Central California that quickly grew to 1,250 acres near the Nevada border.
“We’ve got everything settled down,” White Mountain Fire Chief Dave Doonan told The Epoch Times on Monday morning.
Firefighters from the rural community in Inyo County used a lot of equipment right away to knock out the growing blaze that started at about 2 p.m. on Sunday, even though aircraft had to be grounded Sunday night because of strong winds, Doonan said.
According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), on Sunday, evacuations were ordered for Laws in Inyo County, Chalfant in Mono County, and the White Mountain Estates neighborhood around the fire zone….