Pet of SPORTS the Week Monday A’s split series with Whitesox ...................................Page 6 .............Page 3 July 7, 2008 INSIDE Mendocino County’s World briefly The Ukiah local newspaper ..........Page 2 Tuesday: Mostly sunny; H 103º L 58º 7 58551 69301 0 Wednesday: Mostly sunny; H 103º L 57º 50 cents tax included DAILY JOURNAL ukiahdailyjournal.com 14 pages, Volume 150 Number 89 email:
[email protected] FIRE UPDATE 46 fires still active in the county The Daily Journal The cost, number of acres burned and the num- ber of injuries was up from Fire facts the day before as firefight- Engines: 160 ers once again battled Crews: 40 against the uncontained Helicopters: 16 portions of the county’s Water tenders: 63 numerous lightning fires. Dozers: 44 As of 7 a.m. Sunday, the Overhead: 336 46 active fires and 81 con- Total personnel: 1,749 tained fires of the Fixed wing aircraft: 3 Mendocino Lightning Complex had burned Incident Facts approximately 41,215 acres Burned area: and were 45 percent con- 41,215 acres tained, according to Cal Contained: 45 percent Fire. Injuries to date: 24 “Planned firing opera- Fatalities to date: 1 tions have been successful Residences and may occur in other threatened: 335 areas of the county as nec- Residences destroyed: 2 essary,” stated the Cal Fire Commercial property release. “Residents are threatened: 0 reminded that they may see Number of increased fire and smoke in active fires: 46 the areas of planned firing Total number of fires: 127 operations. GIS Estimated costs Sarah Baldik/The Daily Journal (Geographic Information to date: $20,335,870 Gaio Bullshields assists in a SPACE dance class taught by Ryan Johnson, Wednesday afternoon.