A fire burning amid record heat and thunderstorms producing dry lightning has forced evacuations in Northern California’s Siskiyou County.
The McKinney fire started about 11/2 miles west of Walker Creek Bridge, on the south side of the Klamath River, Klamath National Forest officials said in a tweet shortly before 3 p.m.
By 8:30 p.m., it had grown to about 300 acres, forest officials tweeted.
