In the top photo, 4-H member Rebah Heino of Manton watches over her goats at the Tehama District Fair grounds in Red Bluff. In the bottom two, firefighters using the fairgrounds as a base camp prepare to fight the Ponderosa Fire, which had burned over 15,000 acres between Manton, Shingletown and Viola as of this afternoon.
Large animals were part of the evacuations of the area, and the Red Bluff fairgrounds was one of the holding points for livestock. However, not all livestock made it out. Kari Dodd of the Tehama County Farm Bureau -- who was watching the fire from her property in Paynes Creek -- told me as many as 1,000 head of cattle may be lost in the flames.
For my story on the fire's impact on livestock, grazing and timberlands and on the smoke that has some farmers concerned about their crops, check CapitalPress.com soon.
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