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Lucas Fire past 3,400 acres. Newsom has a bill. The ridge does not wait.

Mendocino and Lake. Ten acres Thursday. CAL FIRE swore in 39 on the eleventh.

The Rocket News · States · Mendocino CountySeptember 13, 2026 · 4 min read

A California hillside under a brown column of wildfire smoke, houses on a ridge, sky and brush in color. No figures in the frame.
A California hillside under a brown column of wildfire smoke, houses on a ridge, sky and brush in color. No figures in the frame.

The Lucas Fire in Mendocino and Lake counties grew past 3,400 acres Saturday, the Mercury News putting it toward 4,000. It was ten acres Thursday morning. The States desk files California as a hillside and a column of smoke, not a bill waiting on a governor’s desk.

Friday, on the eleventh, Newsom swore in 39 new CAL FIRE company officers — the twelfth academy of the year. Since 2019 the fire budget has nearly doubled, to $3.8 billion. About 70,000 people from the pre-bankruptcy PG&E fires, including Paradise, were paid about 70 percent of what they were owed. A bill to study the rest sits with him. The fire does not wait for the pen.

The fire does not wait for the pen.

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California's Lucas Fire explodes to 3,400 acres, forcing evacuations in Mendocino and Lake counties · KPIX CBS News Bay Area · Watch on KPIX CBS News Bay Area

Eight weeks from a midterm. Diesel is a record. A president is in Clare. The States desk files the acres as the California number on a Sunday the markets are shut and the ridge is not.

Wire and further reading: mercurynews.com

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