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The co-called Wild Fire started in Napa County and moved into Solano County, where it continued to burn outside of Fairfield. After consuming more than 4,089 acres, the fire was 80 percent contained on Tuesday.

No homes had been destroyed, and evacuations on Twin Sisters, Gordon Valley, Wooden Valley, Suisun Valley and Green Valley roads were lifted.

Cal Fire Division Chief Wayne Connor said the fire "should be pushing 100 percent by the end of the day" and was expected to be fully contained Wednesday.

"People are probably going to see some smoke and flames throughout the day, but those are from fire operations," Connor said. "We'd rather burn it on our terms than otherwise."

The fire had ignited Saturday near Wild Horse Valley Road in Napa County. It quickly spread through dry grass, oak trees and brush across the Solano County line toward the area of Lake Madigan.

Lake County

Cal Fire resources were transitioning from Napa and Solano counties to another wildfire in a rural area of Lake County that had scorched more than 10,000 acres.

The Walker Fire still has potential of growing to 15,000 acres, Conner said.

No homes had been destroyed, but voluntary evacuations were in place for residents of 36 homes.

Shasta-Trinity National Forest

Another major fire was burning in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, about 160 miles north of Sacramento.

It had threatened about 1,200 homes and several youth camps and forced evacuations.

In all, more than 150 fires had burned about 8,000 acres in the forest and threatened 200 homes.

Monterey County

Firefighters continued to battle the state's largest blaze, a 58,000-acre fire that began more than two weeks ago west of King City in a remote region of the Los Padres National Forest in southern Monterey County.

The so-called Indians fire was about two-thirds contained Tuesday.

A separate 8,500-blaze ignited by lightning in the forest's Big Sur area was only 3 percent contained.

The fires led to an emergency airlift of eight endangered California condors. U.S. Coast Guard helicopters transported the seven juveniles and one adult bird from a wildlife center to the Monterey Airport.

The governor has declared a state of emergency in Monterey County due to the blazes.

Menodicno & Butte Counties

Other areas hit the hardest by the weekend lightning strikes included Mendocino County, where 131 fires had burned more than 13,000 acres and threatened about 500 homes; and Butte County, where 25 fires had burned more than 3,900 acres and threatened 400 homes.

Santa Cruz County

Elsewhere, Cal Fire said vehicle exhaust caused the Trabing Fire in Santa Cruz County, which was expected to be under control by Tuesday night. 

Fire investigators determined the exhaust distributed hot carbon particulate material onto roadside grass, igniting the fire around 2 p.m. last Friday.

The blaze started near Watsonville in the area of state Highway 1 and Buena Vista Drive, burning 630 acres and forcing the evacuation of about 2,000 residents — all of whom have since been able to return to their homes.

About 650 firefighters worked to tackle the fire, which destroyed at least 10 residences and 10 outbuildings.