Wednesday, September 4, 2013

RIM FIRE NUMBERS HOLD, Sept 4th, 8:10 p.m.

Tuolumne County, CA -- The Rim Fire numbers hold at 237,341 acres or 371 square miles and it is still 80% contained.

Incident Command says while the numbers for the fire are staying steady they have dropped the number of structures threatened from 4,500 to 2,495. They attribute that to the containment lines working along the Highway 108 corridor allowing them to take the communities near the south side of the highway off the danger list.

Also, the number of firefighters battling the blaze continues to drop. It is now 3,975, but the cost has soared to $81 million.



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