![]() The fire was not far from the town of Paradise, which was largely destroyed in a 2018 wildfire sparked by PG&E equipment that killed 85 people, making it the nation's deadliest in at least a century.Ĭalifornia's blazes are not the only wildfires scorching vast areas in the world. The flames also reached the town of Chester, northwest of Greenville, but crews managed to protect homes and businesses there, with only minor damage to one or two structures, officials said. "We have firefighters that are getting guns pulled out on them, because people don't want to evacuate," said Jake Cagle, an incident management operations section chief. The blaze hit Greenville from two angles and firefighters already were in the town trying to save it but first they had to risk their lives to save people who had refused to evacuate by loading people into cars to get them out, fire officials said. ![]() Scientists say climate change has made the region much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. Heat waves and historic drought tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight in the American West. "We're seeing truly frightening fire behavior," said Chris Carlton, supervisor for Plumas National Forest. ![]() The winds are kind of changing direction on us every few hours," said Capt. On Thursday, the weather and towering smoke clouds produced by the fire's intense, erratic winds kept firefighters struggling to put firefighters at shifting hot spots. No deaths or injuries were reported but the fire continued to threaten more than 10,000 homes. The blaze exploded on Wednesday and Thursday through timber, grass and brush so dry that one fire official described it as "basically near combustion." Dozens of homes had already burned before the flames made new runs. ![]() No injuries or deaths have been reported. The fire's cause was under investigation, but Pacific Gas & Electric has said it may have been sparked when a tree fell on one of the utility's power lines. That's 676 square miles (1,751 square kilometers) - moving the blaze from the state's sixth-largest wildfire ever to its third-largest overnight. The Dixie Fire had consumed about 432,813 acres, according to an estimate released Friday morning. The three-week-old Dixie Fire was one of 100 active, large fires burning in 14 states, most in the West where historic drought has left lands parched and ripe for ignition. There was no containment and about 6,000 people were ordered to evacuate in Placer and Nevada counties, state fire officials said. 100 homes and buildings charred in yet another wildfireĪbout a two-hour drive south, officials said some 100 homes and other buildings burned in the fast-moving River Fire that broke out Wednesday near Colfax, a town of about 2,000. "My heart is crushed by what has occurred there," said Johns, a lifelong Greenville resident. Officials had not yet assessed the number of destroyed buildings, but Plumas County Sheriff Todd Johns estimated on Thursday that "well over" 100 homes had burned in and near the town.
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