LOS ANGELES—Crews battling the second-largest wildfire on record in California fought on Aug. 6 to keep flames from descending into foothill communities, as reinforcements arrived from as far away as Alaska.
The Mendocino Complex Fire, made up of two separate conflagrations that merged at the southern tip of the Mendocino National Forest, had burned 273,664 acres (110,748 hectares) as of Aug. 6 and was still growing, on track to potentially become the largest in state history.
