Evacuation orders are in effect as wildfires blaze across the West, including in California's scenic Napa County.

The Pickett Fire , which has burned nearly 4,690 acres, first sparked Thursday afternoon and continued to rage Saturday with only 7% of the wildfire contained.

The cause of the fire is not yet known. But an area where it has burned is the same as the devastating 2020 Glass Fire , which raged for 23 days and laid waste to more than 1500 structures.

But Cal Fire operations section chief Jeremy Pierce assured residents that the two blazes were markedly different beasts.

"That Glass Fire is an everlasting memory. That being said, these are not anywhere close to the same conditions as the Glass Fire," Pierce said in a video posted to social media, noting that the 2020 blaz

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