State Highway 96 remains closed in Siskiyou County due to wildfire. Forest service officials say Caltrans is working to reopen the closed segment—between Highway 263 and the Gottville takeout—by early afternoon. Once reopened, traffic will be escorted by a pilot car. The road will be closed again tonight starting at 10 p.m. The closure will continue until 6 a.m. Wednesday.
The now 215-acre LumgreyFire is burning on both sides of the Klamath River. Its cause is under investigation.
Lightning also sparked two fires Monday afternoon in Mendocino National Forest’s Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness area. The larger of the two, the East Fire, has burnt an estimated 40 acres. Thirty firefighters have been assigned, including 10 smokejumpers. The fire is just over 40 miles west of Red Bluff.