Friday, July 16th, 2004 — An army of firefighters, helped by diminishing winds, has gained partial control over an explosive wildfire that burned 14 homes and forced evacuations of hundreds of others. "I think it‘s done its worst, I really think it has," said the fire incident commander, Marty Scheuerman. "Now we can do our job."
Until late Thursday, Scheuerman added, "the fire had dictated to us what it was going to do, instead of us dictating to it."
Christie Kalkowski of the Sierra Front Interagency Dispatch Center says more than 1,100 firefighters battling the 7,200-acre blaze had it 30% contained.