Gold Fire initially started 9:23 a.m. Aug. 4 in San Bernardino County, California. It has burned 991 acres after being active for 34 hours. A crew of 500 firefighters succeeded in containing 5% of the fire as of Tuesday evening. However, investigations into the cause are ongoing.

A vegetation fire in the San Bernardino County area of Holcomb Valley near Big Bear erupted Monday morning. The San Bernardino National Forest, with the assistance of the San Bernardino County Fire Department, responded to the fire dubbed the Gold Fire shortly before 9:30 a.m. on Forest Service 3N10.

Firefighters are battling the Gold Fire north of Big Bear Lake in San Bernardino County, California, as the state faces yet another devastating wildfire. The blaze has scorched 991 acres in just 34 hours,

The Gifford Fire, a wildfire burning in Central California that has destroyed over 83,000 acres in six days, continues to rage and is now the largest blaze in the state this year, according to Cal Fire.

More than 800 structures are threatened by a massive wildfire in central California that left at least three people injured as it burned through Los Padres National Forest. The Gifford Fire scorched more than 129 square miles (334 square kilometers) of coastal Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties,