Officials are urging residents to evacuate as the Fairview Fire in Hemet, California, is still fiercely expanding, with 9,846 acres burned and only 5 percent containment as of 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7.
“Unfortunately, the fire continued to outpace our efforts,” Josh Janssen, battalion chief of Riverside County Fire Department, said during a press conference Wednesday early morning. “We took an operational flight of the fire at about 2 p.m. yesterday [Sept. 6], and it was clear the fire was outpacing our ground and air resources.”
All previous evacuation orders and warnings remain in place as firefighters are struggling since Sept. 5 with slowing down the spread of the blaze, which Janssen said was burning “in all directions on all flanks.”…