Containment grows on Eagle fire

A Cal Fire helicopter assigned to the Eagle fire in Lake County, California, on Wednesday, November 6, 2019. The helicopter used Indian Valley Reservoir for a source for the water it was dropping on the fire. Photo by Kyle Corbetta.

LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Containment rose on Tuesday on a wildland fire burning east of Clearlake Oaks.

The Eagle fire began Monday night off Walker Ridge Road and Bartlett Springs Road, east of Clearlake Oaks and northeast of Clearlake.

Cal Fire said that by Tuesday evening the fire was holding at 75 acres, with containment up to 75 percent.

There has not yet been a report on what caused the fire.

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