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Groveland, CA -- Officials with the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office have started evacuating homes in the area of Clements Road.
Spokesperson Scott Johnson points out that nearby Pine Mountain Lake is not under any type of evacuation advisory.
There are still evacuation notices for Buck Meadows, San Jose Family Camp, Rainbow Pool, Yosemite Inn, Early Intake, Evergreen Lodge, Packard Canyon and the Spinning Wheel Forest Service Facility. Officials have put in place a reverse 911 system to notify residents that are under an evacuation advisory.
An evacuation center is up and running in the Manzanita Building at the Mother Lode Fairgrounds. Johnson adds that Tuolumne County Transit buses are staged at Mary Laveroni Park in Groveland, in the event that South County residents impacted do not have transportation to the evacuation center.
The latest update from the Forest Service is that the Rim Fire is around 11,000 acres.
Comments from living here in Mi Wuk:
The sun is casting an eerie orange glow on our trees, deck, mountain misery, and just in the air. Small pieces of ash cover everything: cars, deck table and chairs, deck itself. The smell of smoke comes and goes.
We need to be grateful and ever vigilant. Is your property fire safe? Is your ground raked clean of pine needles? Are there pine needles on your ROOF!? Are your trees limbed up 15 ft from the ground? Are your trees thinned out a bit? How about your neighbor's property?
This Rim Fire is a big wake up call for all of us to be alert and do all that we can to help our fire fighters.
Be safe.
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