Bay Area fire departments are sending firefighters and supplies northward to battle a blaze being called the Clayton Fire, ABC 7 reports, a disaster threatening the Lake County town of Lower Lake, which borders Clearlake, and its 1,300 residents. The fire was 3,000 acres in scope and just five percent contained earlier this morning. Update: The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency has granted the use of federal funds to help fight the fire, which it deems to constitute a "major disaster." Mandatory evacuations of 3,000 people have occurred, and a Fire Management Assistance Grant for up to 75 percent of eligible firefighting costs will be granted.

Downtown businesses like the Tuscan Village winery and a Habitat for Humanity office have already been destroyed according to the Chronicle, with the Lower Lake High School campus in danger.

The Clayton Fire began Saturday evening, growing stronger during the day Sunday as temperatures reached 100 degrees and winds picked up, KQED writes. But despite its small scale so far, the fire has already been more destructive than the much larger, three-and-a-half-week-old Soberanes Fire in and around Big Sur. As of today, 175 homes and business or more had been destroyed in the Clayton Fire according to the Chronicle, while only 57 homes have been burned by the Soberanes Fire.

One potential victim of the fire appears to have been saved by a photographer shooting for the Chronicle: Noah Berger was able to rescue a goat from a burning building, according to SFGate's Instagram account.

It's been a rough couple of years in Lake County for wildfires. Three major fires burned through the county at roughly this same time last summer, the Rocky Fire, the Jerusalem Fire, and the very devastating Valley Fire, painful and fatal events of which residents are reminded today.

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