Over the weekend, the Mosquito evacuation order was expanded to 440 square miles in Placer and El Dorado counties.
The Mosquito Fire grew by 5,000 acres Sunday and became California’s second largest wildfire of the season.
That put it past the Six Rivers lightning complex and second only to Siskiyou County’s McKinney Fire, which was 60,138 acres. No evacuation orders have been lifted, and Cal Fire officials said no residents from the cleared areas are being escorted or allowed to go back in on their own. They declined to give a figure for destroyed buildings, saying the damage assessment team had not completed its survey.
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