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By Wednesday morning, the fire remained just 30% contained.
About 200 homes are part of the mandatory evacuations that remain in effect from the west side of the 7800 block of Butts Canyon Rd to north of Snell Valley Rd including the Berryessa Estates.
"Right now they're not bad," one Calfire worker tells KRON 4′s Jackie Sissel Wednesday morning. "Yesterday they looked pretty bad with the wind. It looks like it is a fuels driven fire with the drought that we're experiencing now."
The fire broke out early Tuesday afternoon off Butts Canyon Rd in Pope Valley. That's about ten miles southeast of Middletown. Aetna Springs Road is now closed in the area. Butts Canyon Road is also closed between Snell Valley and Aetna Springs roads.
Firefighters from the City of Napa, St. Helena and the Lake County and Napa County and Solano fire departments, the California Highway Patrol and the Napa County Sheriff's Office are involved in the effort to extinguish the flames.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District is advising people in the area to keep their air on recirculate until the smoke outside is gone.
Calfire has already named the blaze the "Butts Fire."
There are no confirmed reports of injuries. The cause of the fire remains unknown.
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As with San Diego, likely another arson event, with ulterior motives to get the population to respond to "mandatory evacuation orders." More "crisis management" from the "problem-reaction-solution" government.