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At nearly 41,000 acres and still raging out of control, the Delta Fire in northern Shasta County has already burned into the Hirz Fire and only has to jump one more road and cross "Damnation Pass" to reach the area burned in the Carr Fire.
The Delta Fire, which started Wednesday, has burned into the 46,150-acre Hirz Fire on the east. Only a couple miles separate the Delta and Carr fires, which is southwest of the Delta Fire, according to a Shasta-Trinity National Forest Service fire map posted in Inciweb.
Together the three fires have burned 316,704 acres. While the Hirz and Delta fires continue to burn out of control, the Carr Fire was contained Aug. 30, according to information from the U.S. Forest Service.
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Interstate 5 remained closed Sunday morning from about 10 miles north of Redding to just north of Dunsmuir.
The Delta Fire was only 5 percent contained Sunday morning, as it grew 323 acres overnight. The Hirz Fire, which started Aug. 10, is 95 percent contained, the forest service said.
The Hirz and Delta fires were both caused by people, but forest service officials said the fires are under investigation and have not released any more information about how the fires started.

Evacuations and road closures

I-5 has been closed to traffic in both directions since Wednesday. At the southern end of the closure, motorists are being turned around at Fawndale Road, about 10 miles north of Redding. At the north end of the closure, motorists are stopped at Mott Road, about 3.5 miles south of Mount Shasta.
The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office issued mandatory evacuations for residents living along the I-5 corridor from the Vollmers exit to the Gibson Road exit.
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An evacuation warning — not a mandatory evacuation — has been issued for all residents of Dunsmuir.
In Trinity County, residents of East Fork Road to Ramshorn Road east to the Trinity County line have been told to evacuate.
East Side Road and East Fork Road in Trinity County has been closed to nonresidents. There is an evacuation advisory only from the East Fork/East Side Road junction west to Highway 3 northward to Ramshorn Road, according to the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
For those displaced by the fires, Mercy Oaks, 100 Mercy Oaks Drive in Redding, has been set up as an evacuation shelter. A second shelter is at the National Guard Armory, 618 Everitt Memorial Hwy in Mount Shasta, the forest service said.

The Siskiyou Humane Society is accepting dogs and cats for evacuees at its shelter, 1208 North Mount Shasta Blvd. The shelter can be reached at 530-926-4052.
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Evacuees can bring their pets and visit or feed them during the shelter hours, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Evacuees are responsible for taking care of their own animals, the forest service said.

Kerlin Fire

The Kerline Fire, burning in southwestern Trinity County, is 1,645 acred and 13 percent contained as of Sunday morning, according to the forest service.
The fire is burning west of Hyampom in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The blaze is not affecting Highway 299 or Hyampom Road between Hayfork and Hyampom, according to the forest service.