California:Firefighters stabilize Oregon wildfire

California:(Web News)A wildfire that destroyed four homes in central Oregon was starting to stabilize on Monday, authorities said, while a blaze in Northern California wine country has so far spared some of the state’s most famous vineyards.
Moisture helped the 1,200 firefighters battling Oregon’s Flat Fire, but more work needed to be done. Dry, hot weather had fueled a rapid expansion of the blaze across 88 square kilometers of rugged terrain in Deschutes and Jefferson counties since the fire began late Thursday.
“Gotta love Mother Nature. It brought in a little bit of rain. Cooled the temps, relative humidity came up,” Travis Medema, the state’s chief deputy state fire marshal, told a community meeting in the town of Sisters. “The incident, for the first time in the last three days, is really beginning to stabilize.”
Officials said firefighters had protective lines of some sort around the entire fire, including roads, but the fire remained at five percent containment.
Authorities at one point ordered evacuations for more than 4,000 homes but lifted orders for some areas in the evening.
A heat advisory was in place through Wednesday, and forecasters warned that potential thunderstorms could create erratic winds that would challenge firefighters.