![]() ![]() In Greenville, the leveling of the downtown area marked a significant shift in the Dixie Fire’s reach into populated communities. The River Fire is particularly worrisome, some fire experts said, because it is in an area that has not burned in more than 100 years and is significantly vegetated with many homes. Once the fire started, it was a recipe for rapid-fire growth.” “We’ve had drought conditions,” said Jim Hudson, a deputy chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Nevada-Yuba-Placer Unit. ![]() It is one of a dozen fires currently raging across the state, fueled by high winds and an excess of dry vegetation in the state’s drought-stricken wildlands.Ībout 100 miles south of Greenville, in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Colfax, another fire that broke out Wednesday had grown to 2,600 acres by Thursday evening, prompting the evacuation of nearly 10,000 residents. The fire - now the sixth-largest in California history - had scorched more than 361,000 acres across Plumas and Butte counties by Thursday and was just 35% contained. “I just stood there for a moment and let it set in. Jeremy Day, whose crew battled the flames in and around Greenville overnight. By midnight, the mountain town was ravaged, most of its historic downtown reduced to ashes in what was likely the single most destructive night since the wildfire broke out three weeks ago. GREENVILLE - They didn’t expect Greenville to burn so fast.Ĭrews fighting California’s largest wildfire of the season had been working for days to protect the town of about 1,100, trying to stay ahead of fast, dry winds that threatened to drive the already vast Dixie Fire deeper into the northern Sierra.īut then the winds came. ![]()
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