Huge wildfire tearing through northern California becomes the third largest in the state's history and looks set to continue growing
The winds were expected to calm and change direction heading into the weekend but that good news came too late for Gorman. She was told that her home burned down — but is waiting until she can see it with her own eyes to believe it's gone.
“There is a photo I keep visualising in my mind of my son when he was 2, he’s 37,” she said. “And you think ’It’s OK, I have the negatives. And then you think. ‘Oh. No. I don’t have the negatives.’”A firefighter battles the Dixie Fire as it tears through the Greenville community in Plumas County, Calif., August 4, 2021. "This fire is not over. If that plume is anywhere near your direction... you need to prepare. Wherever the wind blows this fire, that's where it's going to go.
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