About 1,000 people in the rural Northern California community of Weed were still being kept from their homes Sunday as firefighters worked to contain a blaze that had sparked out of control at the start of the holiday weekend.

Power outages, smoky skies and uncertainty about what the day would bring left a feeling of emptiness around the town the morning after evacuation orders were lifted for thousands of other residents.

“It’s eerily quiet,” said Susan Tavalero, a Weed city councilor, who was driving to a meeting with fire officials.

She was joined by Mayor Kim Greene, and the two hoped to get more details on how many homes had been lost.

A total of 132 structures were destroyed or damaged, fire officials said Sunday, though it wasn’t clear whether they were homes, businesses, or other buildings.

Crews kept the flames, known as the Mill Fire, from growing overnight.

As of Sunday morning, the fire covered about 6.6 square miles (17 square kilometers) and was 25% contained, numbers unchanged since Saturday night, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s morning report.

Arno Atoll is a coral atoll comprised of 133 islands in the Pacific Ocean, which forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands.

All these islets are about 15 kilometers by boat from the main economic center of the Marshal Islands, the island of Majuco.

In other words, they are the closest atoll to Majuro, and only ones that are served by regular public boats.

But, it could be like a thousand kilometers away. On the way to the atoll, you can always encounter dolphins and whales, blue pelagic and tuna.

In the past, in 1884 the atoll was claimed by the German Empire together with the rest of the Marshall Islands.

After World War I, the island became part of the South Pacific Mandate of the Empire of Japan, where following World War II, Arno Atoll came under the control of the United States as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

The island has been part of the independent Republic of the Marshall Islands since 1986.

As soon as you arrive on the atoll, you’ll notice that there are three enclosed different lagoons.

The central one is bigger, compared to the other two in the north and the east.

The big lagoon has an area of 338 square km (130 square mi). The people who live on the atoll have difficult life, since they are living like in they are on the most isolated island of the Marshall Islands.

Nevertheless, they are well known for their productivity on making copra, which is the dried out meat of the coconuts, from which the coconut oil is extracted.

The federal government has halted the construction of the Port Harcourt-Maidugiri Eastern rail line due to insecurity and vandalism of railway infrastructure on the corridor.

This was disclosed by the Minister of Transportation, Engr. Mu’azu Sambo, during the inspection of the project, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria’s South-south.

According to the minister, China Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCEC), the contractor handling the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the project, had complained of attacks on its workers along the Abia State axis.

Sambo, who was obviously very displeased by the acts, condemned them in strong terms, pointing out that in the history of Nigeria, no administration has invested more in rail infrastructure like the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

He used the opportunity to call on the media and the judiciary to collaborate with the Ministry to ensure that economic saboteurs are not only exposed but prosecuted and sentenced speedily to serve as deterrence to others.

On the report that the funds meant for the Eastern rail line is diverted to other projects, the Minister said it was fake news as the progress made so far is from the 15% of the counterpart funding by Nigeria while the 85% to be provided by foreign parterners was still being negotiated.