At least five people are missing and thousands are anxiously waiting at evacuation centers as California's Dixie Fire, now the nation's largest wildfire, rips through Northern California communities and threatens to incinerate thousands of homes.
. Some evacuated early and have spent weeks away from their homes. Others decided to stick it out and wait until the flames were at their doorstep.
"We have the largest building in town and the best view so we could go up and see everything catching on fire," Gonzales said. "There were embers and flames everywhere by the time we left."reducing air quality to unhealthy and sometimes hazardous levels , but Pacific Gas & Electric said in two separate reports to the California Public Utilities Commission that it may have been sparked when a tree fell on one of its power lines.The questions around the Dixie Fire's origin are only the latest in a string of disasters that has left the utility in bankruptcy and led to its criminal prosecution.
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