With the Crozier Fire burning through the weekend, the evacuation zone in the Sierra Nevada near Placerville was reduced.
On Sunday, residents were allowed to return to their homes, except for those in an area of about 40 square miles including Mosquito and Swansboro, El Dorado County officials said.
The map above shows the approximate perimeter of the fire as a black line and the evacuation area in red.
Crozier Fire was reported at 11 pm on TuesdayAug. 6, as a half-acre vegetation fire in the Eldorado National Forest about 6 miles north of the Highway 50 town of Camino. The first evacuations were ordered within hours.
Sunday’s report from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection put Crozier’s size at 1,938 acres (3 square miles) with 18% containment.
For more information on the evacuation, including warning zones, see map on Perimeter. El Dorado County has established a non-emergency fire information hotline at (530) 621-7676 and also has a website about the fire.
Video from Sunday’s community meeting about the fire is available at CalFire’s YouTube page.
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