LATEST: Two people were found dead in their car in a driveway in the town of Klamath River, Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue told ABC News. Firefighters said they suspected that the two were caught in the fast-moving fire as they tried to flee.
Fred Greaves/Reutersin a Northern California national forest and threatening a town of nearly 8,000 people has quickly become the largest wildland fire in the state this year, officials said.
The fire started around 2:15 p.m. Friday in the Klamath National Forest and has caused the closure of Highway 98 in the area and the evacuation communities, including the partial evacuation of Yreka, California, officials said. "We're feeling pretty good" about protecting Yreka, whose western fringes were threatened by the fire, he told ABC News.
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office said search crews rescued about 60 hikers from a section of the Pacific Crest Trail, a popular backpacking trail that runs from Canada to Mexico.Sgt. Shawn Richards of Jackson County Search At least 568 firefighters are battling the blaze on the ground and from the air with helicopters and air tankers.
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