Driven by fierce winds and bone-dry conditions, the Dixie fire exploded to 432,813 acres in Northern California. The fire grew more than 100,000 acres in the last 24 hours. It is now the third-largest wildfire in state history, officials said.
Driven by fierce winds and bone-dry conditions, the Dixie fire exploded to 432,8`13 acres in Northern California, having grown more than 100,000 acres in the last 24 hours. It is now the third-largest wildfire in state history, officials said.
Roughly three-fourths of the remote town’s structures went up in flames, fires spokeswoman Serena Baker said the morning after the blaze swept through the remote town.Plumas County Sheriff Todd Johns struck a somber tone at a briefing Thursday night, describing himself as a lifelong resident of Greenville.
The U.S. Postal Service building was standing, but inside, the banks of P.O. boxes lay collapsed on the ground, their doors burned off. The gas station was smoldering, its metal roof twisted and swollen, its pumps burned-out shells. The 58-year-old in 2007 moved to the Gold Rush-era town, where the population sign read more than 2,000 people but where the community numbers just over 1,000.
On Thursday, he heard from a friend who stayed and tried to fight the fire in a pasture behind the Machlan home. He said the house had been reduced to ash. Neighbors’ homes were also destroyed.“It’s tragic for so many people,” Machlan said, adding that the catastrophe came as no surprise because conditions in the Sierra Nevada have been the driest he’s ever seen.
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