About 100 people were evacuated as high winds hampered firefighting.
About 100 people were evacuated on Sunday as high winds hampered firefighting.
For the past several days, low humidity and high winds have helped fan flames and the wind has hampered firefighting efforts, including grounding some helicopters and airplanes used to dump water on wildfires from the air, officials said.
"Your first thought is to say: 'Get more people, get more stuff, go, go, go,' " Ms. Notley said, but that approach could cause added danger and hamper firefighting work by clogging the city's small airport.
Incident commander John Moulson said the wind direction had hampered firefighting operations at first and a building used to store recycling materials adjacent to the wood pile had been affected by the radiating heat.
The proximity of the tanks as well as low water pressure hampered firefighting efforts, and the fire was extinguished five days later; it resulted in three destroyed gasoline tanks with two more caught on fire.
By the city's reasoning, an inspection might have turned up problems in the building that later hampered the firefighting effort, including the fact that the standpipe, designed to deliver water to the structure to fight a fire, had been partly dismantled and was useless.
Further, vulnerable homes would block streets when they collapse, hampering evacuation, relief, and firefighting activities.
Trump also blamed the fires on California's environmental laws, and falsely claimed firefighting was hampered by the state's practice of "diverting water to the Pacific" (where the water flows naturally).
