Photos From the Electra Fire in Northern California

U.S.|Photos: Battling the Electra occurrence successful Northern California.

A wildfire burning 50 miles southeast of Sacramento successful the Sierra Nevada foothills had exploded by Wednesday to 3,900 acres, prompting evacuation orders for thousands of radical and injuring an exigency aesculapian worker.

Named the Electra fire, the blaze started connected Monday adjacent the Mokelumne River and is burning done an country that was besides scorched successful 2015, said Chris Vestal, a spokesperson for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which had contained 10 percent of the blaze by Wednesday afternoon.

Smoke from the occurrence is expected to dispersed crossed parts of Northern California and beyond Reno, Nev., according to the National Weather Service, which warned that aerial prime could deteriorate.