Lightning-caused fires continue to pop up around the Klamath National Forest since thunderstorms moved through earlier this week, and Cal Fire reported that a Yreka man had been arrested June 25 for two fires reported near Mcdoel.

As of Wednesday evening, 17 lightning fires had been reported on the Klamath National Forest, and crews were working to get all of them extinguished ahead of temperatures expected to climb to near 100 degrees by the weekend.

The largest of the lightning fires is the Pan Fire, which is one acre on the Happy Camp/Oak Knoll District, according to a post on the Klamath National Forest Facebook page. The Pan Fire is contained, the post said.

Firefighters are continuing to aggressively go after new starts, and fire managers have brought in additional resources to bolster Forest Service crews and equipment. Reconnaissance flights have been occurring daily, and fire lookouts are staffed and keeping watch for additional starts, the agency reported.

Eight of the fires have been declared out, three are controlled and in patrol status, and four are contained. The two remaining fires are both staffed.

When a fire is declared contained, it means that a control line has been completed around the fire and any associated spot fires, which can reasonably be expected to stop the fire’s spread, the KNF post explained.

A fire declared controlled means a control line has been completed around a fire, and crews have burned out any unburned area adjacent to the fire side of the control lines; and all hot spots that are immediate threats to the control line have been cooled down until the lines can reasonably be expected to hold under the foreseeable conditions.

Smokejumpers were on the scene of three fires that were discovered June 27: The Cow Fire in the Salmon/Scott District near Crapo Mountain, the Blakes Firein Salmon/Scott District, just south of the South Russian Trailhead west of the Russian Wilderness, and the Belle Fire, one mile west of the Blakes Fire.

In Mcdoel, the