Sheriff officers watch as flames from the Hog fire approach highway 36 about 5 miles from Susanville, California. The fire exploded to more than 6,000 acres and created its own weather, generating lightning, thunder, rain and fire whirls out of a huge pyrocumulonimbus ash plume towering above.
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A log keeps burning as hail falls directly on the Hog fire near Susanville, California. A thunderstorm cell mixed with a pyrocumulus ash column from the Hog fire, bringing with it erratic winds and lightning before evolving into a hail storm that extinguished a portion of the fire.
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Smoke from the Hog Fire is seen from Highway 36 west of Susanville, California. Mandatory evacuations are in effect for the Hog Fire which has grown to 9 square miles (23 square kilometers) in Lassen County. Cal Fire says about 170 structures are threatened.
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A CalFire aircraft drops fire retardant over the Hog fire, about 5 miles from Susanville, California.
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A collection of hail pellets are displayed as firefighters wait in their vehicles during a hail storm that falls on the Hog fire near Susanville, California.
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Firefighters look on as a thunderstorm cell draws in a smoke column from the Hog fire near Susanville, California.
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Firefighters move away from impending flames as the Hog fire jumps highway 36 about 5 miles from Susanville, California.
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Firefighters wait in their vehicles as hail falls on the Hog fire near Susanville, California. A thunderstorm cell mixed with a pyrocumulus ash column from the Hog fire, bringing with it erratic winds and lightning before evolving into a hail storm that extinguished a portion of the fire.
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Firefighters mop up hot spots from the Hog fire along highway 36 about 5 miles from Susanville, California.
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Firefighters look on as a smoke column from the Hog fire collides with a thunderstorm cell near Susanville, California.
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