The fast-moving blaze has forced residents in three towns to evacuate.
She said there were burned homes in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood but"I don't know how many. I'm positive several homes have been lost."
Christopher Rock, an employee at the Mayten Store in Montague, 30 miles north of Weed, said fire evacuees had swarmed the pumps.Marco Noriega, brew master at Mount Shasta Brewing Company, said he received the notice to evacuate around 1 p.m. and he sent the 10 customers and three employees away. He said the power is out and he has received little information."I've been through it before, so long as the wind stays in the direction it is, I'm all right.
"He said, 'don't linger, grab your computer, grab what you need and get out of the house now. It's coming your way.' So I did," Balfrey told The Associated Press. She stopped to get her neighbor and they drove to a church parking lot in Montague, where about 40 other vehicles were also parked.
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