By Press Democrat staff
At press time Monday officials reported evacuation orders had been lifted late Sunday for residents in the path of a fast-moving wildfire that sparked Sunday in a remote part of southeastern Lake County.
The Sky Fire, first reported after 3 p.m. in the 20500 block of SKy High Ridge Road, was burning in hilly, forested terrain about seven miles southeast of Clearlake.
On fire lookout cameras, the blaze quickly kicked up a dark cloud of smoke, and authorities issued the first evacuation orders by about 3:50 p.m. About 5:15 p.m., one of the orders was downgraded to a warning and another zone was split in half — one reduced to a warning and the other kept in an order. By 6:20 p.m., all advisories were lifted.
A large initial call for ground and air resources was went out from incident commanders, according to the wildfire tracker app Watch Duty.
The fire was burning in a sparsely populated area south of the Brushy Sky High area, which borders on the rugged and dry Cache Creek Wilderness — a region that has been hit in many of Lake County’s repeated run-ins with big wildfires over the past decade.
The Sky Fire was burning about 20 miles north of Napa County’s Pickett Fire, the region’s largest wildfire, which stood at more than 6,800 acres and was about 11% contained Sunday.
