![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three people, including a firefighter, were injured, authorities said. Evacuation orders for thousands of people in Nevada and Placer counties were lifted Friday. It had engulfed an area larger than the size of New York City.įurther northwest, about 500 homes scattered in and around Shasta-Trinity National Forest remained threatened by the Monument Fire and others by the McFarland Fire, both started by lightning storms last week, fire officials said.Ībout a two-hour drive south from the Dixie Fire, crews had surrounded nearly half of the River Fire that broke out Wednesday near the town of Colfax and destroyed 68 homes and other buildings. The fire incinerated much of Greenville on Wednesday and Thursday, destroying 370 homes and structures and threatening nearly 14,000 buildings in the northern Sierra Nevada. “We knew we didn’t get enough rainfall and fires could happen, but we didn’t expect a monster like this,” Studebaker said Saturday. Residents of the scenic forestlands of Northern California are facing a weekend of fear as it threatens to reduce thousands of homes to ashes. But in just one night, a raging wildfire tore through the mountain town and “took it all away,” she said.įueled by strong winds and bone-dry vegetation, the Dixie Fire grew to become the largest single wildfire in state history. She had been renting for three months and hoped the stability would help her win back custody of her 14-year-old daughter. (AP) - After four years of homelessness, Kesia Studebaker thought she finally landed on her feet when she found a job cooking in a diner and moved into a house in the small community of Greenville. 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.GREENVILLE, Calif. Heatwaves and historic drought tied to the climate crisis have made wildfires harder to fight in the American west. There was no containment and about 6,000 people were ordered to evacuate in Placer and Nevada counties, state fire officials said. The 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.Ībout a two-hour drive south of Greenville, 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. In Susanville, about 40 miles from Greenville, smoke was so severe it was beyond the air quality index. Much of the region was covered in smoke Friday and air quality in the mountains reached hazardous levels. Lassen Volcanic national park was closed to all visitors because of the fire, which has also forced evacuations in Lassen, Butte and Plumas counties. At the same time, it took our whole town.” It’s not that we didn’t think this could happen to us. It’s where she kept every journal she’s written in since second grade and a hand edit of a novel on top of her grandfather’s roll-top desk. Margaret Elysia Garcia, an artist and writer who has been in southern California waiting out the fire, watched video of her Greenville office in flames. But for many in the Greenville community, that relief came too late.Ī man quickly leaves after checking a house burning in the River fire in Nevada county, California. “We really are in uncharted territory.”īy Friday, the winds were expected to calm and change direction heading into the weekend. “We’re seeing truly frightening fire behavior,” Chris Carlton, supervisor for Plumas national forest, added. The winds are kind of changing direction on us every few hours,” Capt Sergio Arellano, a fire spokesperson, said. The weather and towering smoke clouds produced by the fire’s intense, erratic winds kept firefighters struggling on Thursday. Photograph: Noah Berger/APĪ similar warning was issued as flames pushed toward the south-east in the direction of Taylorsville, a tiny mountain town of roughly 200 people about 10 miles (16km) south-east of Greenville.įlames also reached the town of Chester, located near Lake Almanor, a popular recreation site north-west of Greenville, but crews managed to protect homes and businesses there, with only minor damage to one or two structures, officials said. ![]() Flames from the Dixie fire consume a home on Highway 89 south of Greenville. ![]()
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