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School Fire containment report conflicts with Colusa County tracker

CAL FIRE reports a 52-acre School Fire was contained May 31, but data conflicts with a Colusa County tracker listing from May 26.

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COLUSA, Calif., May 31 (Colusa News) — CAL FIRE listed a 52-acre School Fire as 100% contained at 6 a.m. May 31, but its official incident page places that fire on Ahart Road in Honcut, in Butte County.

The CAL FIRE listing, last updated June 3, says the fire started at 5:24 p.m. May 30 and was under the jurisdiction of the CAL FIRE Butte Unit. The agency listed no incident management team assigned.

A report update on the page said, “The School Fire is 100% contained as of 0600 5/31/26.”

The cause remains under investigation, according to CAL FIRE.

The Colusa connection is less clear in available records. A separate California fire tracker identified a School Fire in Colusa County as a wildfire on private land first discovered at 8:52 a.m. May 26. That tracker said at the time of its update that no containment data was available and the cause had not been determined.

The available records do not show whether the CAL FIRE Butte County incident and the Colusa County School Fire listing refer to the same fire or to different fires with the same name.

No official Colusa County incident record in the provided materials confirmed a 100% containment figure, acreage, exact location, evacuations, injuries, structure damage or road closures for a Colusa County School Fire. The records also did not include air quality readings, weather measurements or ecological impact data tied to a Colusa County School Fire.

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