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"content": "\u003cp>Firefighters battling the massive Dixie Fire have also been facing a second enemy: a serial arsonist who went on a spree of setting fires in July and August — and who sought to trap fire crews with his fires, according to agents from the U.S. Forest Service. They allege former college professor Gary Maynard is the culprit, citing their tracking of his movements and other evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where Maynard went, fires started. Not just once, but over and over again,\" the government said in a court memorandum arguing for Maynard, who was arrested Saturday, to be denied bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge agreed to that request during a brief hearing Wednesday, saying there are no \"conditions or combination of conditions that would provide the necessary level of safety to this community should the defendant be released.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: \"Based on that finding, the defendant will be detained as a risk of non-appearance and a danger to the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maynard's next court appearance is scheduled for Aug. 24, a representative of the U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While court documents allege that Maynard is connected to more than a half-dozen dangerous fires in Northern California, he is currently charged with starting only the Ranch Fire. That blaze broke out on Saturday morning in a remote area where, according to court records, Maynard had just camped for the night. It's one of three fires that officials said Maynard set in recent days — all of them close to the Dixie Fire's northeastern footprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He entered the evacuation zone and began setting fires behind the first responders fighting the Dixie fire,\" the U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento said in court papers. It added, \"Maynard's fires were placed in the perfect position to increase the risk of firefighters being trapped between fires.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maynard's alleged offenses \"show that he is particularly dangerous, even among arsonists,\" the federal prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it weren't for the surveillance federal agents were conducting on Maynard, the fires would have been much worse and the risk to firefighters would have been greater, the document said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1879px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11884691\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gary-maynard-fires-map_wide-2150410ca6ad7b04afb833cef201f77a6606776d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1879\" height=\"1059\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gary-maynard-fires-map_wide-2150410ca6ad7b04afb833cef201f77a6606776d.jpg 1879w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gary-maynard-fires-map_wide-2150410ca6ad7b04afb833cef201f77a6606776d-800x451.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gary-maynard-fires-map_wide-2150410ca6ad7b04afb833cef201f77a6606776d-1020x575.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gary-maynard-fires-map_wide-2150410ca6ad7b04afb833cef201f77a6606776d-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/gary-maynard-fires-map_wide-2150410ca6ad7b04afb833cef201f77a6606776d-1536x866.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1879px) 100vw, 1879px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map submitted with court papers shows the massive Dixie Fire, in red, along with three fires that U.S. Forest Service agents allege Maynard set. No. 1 marks the approximate location of the Moon Fire, which started Aug. 5; No. 2 refers to the Ranch Fire; and No. 3 refers to the Conard Fire. The latter two ignited on Saturday. \u003ccite>(Courtesy U.S. Forest Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Maynard Identified After His Car Got Stuck Near a Fire\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Maynard, 47, is a former professor who has taught at colleges in the Bay Area and in New York, according to online records. Last fall, he taught in the criminology and criminal justice department at \u003ca href=\"https://ccjs.sonoma.edu/news-events/ccjs-welcomes-new-lecturers-fall-2020\">Sonoma State University\u003c/a>, which says in its official bio for Maynard that he has a doctorate in sociology and three master's degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His teaching and research, the school said, focuses on topics that include the \"sociology of health, deviance and crime\" and environmental sociology. Maynard also has connections to other schools, from Stony Brook University in New York (where he received his doctorate) to Santa Clara University, where he also taught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On July 20, Maynard was spotted near the scene of the Cascade Fire, on the western slopes of Mount Shasta. A mountain biker in those remote woods had noticed signs of a fire, called 911 and then worked to limit the fire's spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Forest Service fire investigator determined the Cascade Fire was likely the result of arson. He also noticed that on a dirt road 150 to 200 yards from the fire, a man was struggling to free his car, a black Kia Soul, after the vehicle's rear had failed to clear a partially buried boulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A witness told investigators that the man, later identified as Maynard, had arrived several hours before the fire started, court records show. The witness said the man had walked off in the direction of where the fire eventually ignited, returning around 10 minutes later. After the man returned, the witness recalled, smoke from the Cascade Fire became visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator kept his distance from Maynard, citing the man's \"uncooperative and agitated behavior.\" But he took a picture of his car, and the license plate number led to Maynard. Forest Service agents also measured and recorded data about the tire tread pattern left by Maynard's car — evidence that they say ties him to a string of arson wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full complaint \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21040032/maynard-complaint-usfs.pdf\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tracking an Arson Suspect\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In an affidavit requesting an arrest warrant for Maynard, U.S. Forest Service Special Agent Tyler Bolen said he used a variety of means to learn more about the arson suspect, from internet searches that turned up his ties to colleges to inquiries with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA, Bolen says, confirmed that Maynard had an electronic benefits transfer account. Tracing his use of the card at grocery stores, the Forest Service was able to place Maynard close to the time and place where a number of fires were set, according to Bolen's affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EBT account showed Maynard made purchases at a Safeway in Fortuna, along California's coast, on July 18, and then, a week later, at a Safeway store in Susanville — some 260 miles inland, just east of the Lassen National Forest across the Sierra from where the Dixie Fire erupted in mid-July, the affidavit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Maynard's car was registered in San José, Bolen also contacted the San José Police Department, which passed along a 2020 warning from a colleague who had reported her concern for Maynard's well-being, citing a severe mental health crisis. Crucially, the police agency shared Maynard's cellphone number, which was later confirmed to be linked to his EBT account, according to the affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Part of 'An Arson-Setting Spree'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Investigators said they've connected Maynard to a string of fires in Northern California, as early as the Bradley Fire that destroyed over 300 acres on July 11, and possibly as early as the Sweetbriar Fire on July 6. Both of those blazes struck in the Mount Shasta area, northwest of the Lassen National Forest where the Dixie Fire is still raging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent days, authorities said, Maynard set numerous fires in the Lassen area — part of \"an arson-setting spree,\" Bolen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late July, Forest Service agents grew so concerned about Maynard's actions that they also asked Verizon Wireless for 15-minute updates on his location, 24 hours a day. Eventually, an agent also installed a tracker on Maynard's car, according to Bolen's affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents used that data to follow along behind Maynard, putting out several fires and gathering evidence that could link him to the blazes. Investigators also obtained warrants requiring Verizon Wireless to preserve evidence from Maynard's cellphone account that could show his movements and activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, Lassen County sheriff's deputies arrested Maynard after a California Highway Patrol officer initially pulled him over for driving in an emergency closure area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Maynard Denies Starting the Fires\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After his arrest, Maynard told Forest Service agents he had not started any fires. He was then booked into the Lassen County Jail on a charge of violating a state law that forbids entering a closed emergency area. But later Saturday, a deputy told him that a federal felony arson charge was being added. An angry Maynard insisted that he is innocent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm going to kill you, f***ing pig! I told those f***ers I didn't start any of those fires!\" he said to the deputy, according to the affidavit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maynard was later transferred to Sacramento County's jail. He had a brief court appearance by video Tuesday, followed by his detention hearing on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the days before he was taken into custody, Maynard allegedly set the Moon Fire on Aug. 5, as well as the Ranch and Conard fires, which both ignited on Saturday, according to Bolen's affidavit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maynard now faces federal charges of setting fire to land that's owned by the U.S. or is under its jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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Forest Service agents also measured and recorded data about the tire tread pattern left by Maynard's car — evidence that they say ties him to a string of arson wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the full complaint \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21040032/maynard-complaint-usfs.pdf\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tracking an Arson Suspect\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In an affidavit requesting an arrest warrant for Maynard, U.S. Forest Service Special Agent Tyler Bolen said he used a variety of means to learn more about the arson suspect, from internet searches that turned up his ties to colleges to inquiries with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USDA, Bolen says, confirmed that Maynard had an electronic benefits transfer account. 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But they were still a concern for firefighters working in unprecedented conditions to protect thousands of threatened homes.[aside postID=news_11880307]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The live trees that are out there now have a lower fuel moisture than you would find when you go to a hardware store or a lumberyard and get that piece of lumber that’s kiln dried,” Mark Brunton, operations section chief for Cal Fire, said in an online briefing Sunday morning. “It’s that dry, so it doesn’t take much for any sort of embers, sparks or small flaming front to get that going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueled by strong winds and bone-dry vegetation, 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.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dixie Fire, named for the road where it started nearly four weeks ago, grew to an area of 725 square miles by Sunday morning and was just 21% contained, according to Cal Fire. 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But the weather settled starting Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damage reports are preliminary because assessment teams can’t get into many areas, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11883862\" label=\"More Dixie Fire Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze became the largest single (non-complex) fire in California's recorded history, surpassing last year's Creek Fire. It's about half the size of the August Complex, a series of lightning-caused 2020 fires across seven counties that were fought together and that state officials consider California's largest wildfire overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire’s cause was under investigation. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has said the blaze may have been sparked when a tree fell on one of its power lines. A federal judge ordered PG&E on Friday to give details by Aug. 16 about the equipment and vegetation where the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooler temperatures and higher humidity slowed the spread of the fire, and temperatures topped 90 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the triple-digit highs recorded earlier last week. Dense smoke cover helped, too, shading the area and tamping down the fire growth but also making it harder for crews to maneuver on the ground and in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884328\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1898px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11884328\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1898\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-scaled.jpg 1898w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-800x1079.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-1020x1375.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-160x216.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-1139x1536.jpg 1139w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-1519x2048.jpg 1519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1898px) 100vw, 1898px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This before-and-after series shows residents drinking and listening to country music (top) while ignoring a mandatory evacuation order in front of their home on July 23, 2021, and after it burned (below) in Greenville on August 7, 2021. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Heatwaves and historic drought tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight. Scientists have said climate change has made the region much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make the weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a two-hour drive south from the Dixie Fire, crews had surrounded nearly half of the River Fire that broke out August 4 near the town of Colfax and destroyed 68 homes and other buildings. Evacuation orders for thousands of people in Nevada and Placer counties were lifted Friday. Three people, including a firefighter, were injured, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the fires blanketed Northern California and western Nevada, causing air quality to deteriorate to very unhealthy and, at times, hazardous levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air quality advisories extended through California's San Joaquin Valley and as far as the San Francisco Bay Area to Denver, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, where residents were urged to keep their windows and doors shut. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze became the largest single (non-complex) fire in California's recorded history, surpassing last year's Creek Fire. It's about half the size of the August Complex, a series of lightning-caused 2020 fires across seven counties that were fought together and that state officials consider California's largest wildfire overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire’s cause was under investigation. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has said the blaze may have been sparked when a tree fell on one of its power lines. A federal judge ordered PG&E on Friday to give details by Aug. 16 about the equipment and vegetation where the fire started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooler temperatures and higher humidity slowed the spread of the fire, and temperatures topped 90 degrees Fahrenheit instead of the triple-digit highs recorded earlier last week. Dense smoke cover helped, too, shading the area and tamping down the fire growth but also making it harder for crews to maneuver on the ground and in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884328\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1898px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11884328\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1898\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-scaled.jpg 1898w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-800x1079.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-1020x1375.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-160x216.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-1139x1536.jpg 1139w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234579089-1-1519x2048.jpg 1519w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1898px) 100vw, 1898px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This before-and-after series shows residents drinking and listening to country music (top) while ignoring a mandatory evacuation order in front of their home on July 23, 2021, and after it burned (below) in Greenville on August 7, 2021. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Heatwaves and historic drought tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight. Scientists have said climate change has made the region much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make the weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a two-hour drive south from the Dixie Fire, crews had surrounded nearly half of the River Fire that broke out August 4 near the town of Colfax and destroyed 68 homes and other buildings. Evacuation orders for thousands of people in Nevada and Placer counties were lifted Friday. Three people, including a firefighter, were injured, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the fires blanketed Northern California and western Nevada, causing air quality to deteriorate to very unhealthy and, at times, hazardous levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air quality advisories extended through California's San Joaquin Valley and as far as the San Francisco Bay Area to Denver, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, where residents were urged to keep their windows and doors shut. Denver’s air quality ranked among the worst in the world Saturday afternoon.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was updated Aug. 6, 2021, at 5:40 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wildfire raging in Northern California exploded in size overnight, becoming the third-largest wildfire in state history amid high temperatures and strong winds. Better weather conditions were expected to aid the firefight on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dixie Fire grew by 110 square miles between Thursday night and Friday morning, making the blaze the largest wildfire currently raging in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is going to be a long firefight,” said Capt. Mitch Matlow, spokesperson of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was 35% contained Friday morning but was largely expanding within the perimeter firefighters previously established. It now spans an area of 676 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a two-hour drive south, 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. There was no containment and about 6,000 people were ordered to evacuate in Placer and Nevada counties, state fire officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Placer County has declared a local emergency, which legally asserts continuing risk to life and property and that the response is beyond the capabilities of local resources, according to the county. Placer’s proclamation requests state and federal assistance, but on Friday the county said in a statement that a federal disaster has not yet been declared that would authorize disaster assistance for residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a local emergency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded a fire management assistance grant to ensure the availability of resources to suppress the River Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the fire tore through the little California mountain town of Greenville, which resident Eva Gorman said was a place of community and strong character, where neighbors volunteered to move furniture, colorful baskets of flowers brightened Main Street, and writers, musicians, mechanics and chicken farmers mingled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it’s ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As hot, bone-dry, gusty weather hit California, the fire raged through the Gold Rush-era Sierra Nevada community of about 1,000, incinerating much of the downtown that included wooden buildings more than a century old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winds were expected to calm and change direction heading into the weekend but that good news came too late for Gorman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CALFIRE_ButteCo/status/1423724481671876608\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just completely devastating. We’ve lost our home, my business, our whole downtown area is gone,” said Gorman, who heeded evacuation warnings and left town with her husband a week-and-a-half ago as the Dixie Fire approached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She managed to grab some photos off the wall, her favorite jewelry and important documents but couldn’t help but think of the family treasures left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother’s dining room chairs, my great-aunt’s bed from Italy. There is a photo I keep visualizing in my mind of my son when he was 2. He’s 37 now,” she said. “At first you think, ‘It’s OK, I have the negatives.’ And then you realize, ‘Oh. No. I don’t.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials had not yet assessed the number of destroyed buildings, but Plumas County Sheriff Todd Johns estimated on Thursday that “well over” 100 homes had burned in and near the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart is crushed by what has occurred there,” said Johns, a lifelong Greenville resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities also shut down Lassen Volcanic National Park Thursday because of the explosive wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883878\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11883878\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters survey a decimated downtown as the Dixie Fire burns through Greenville, California, on Aug. 4, 2021. On the same day, officials in Northern California warned residents of two communities in the path of the fire to evacuate immediately as high winds whipped the flames onward. The fire burned through dozens of homes and businesses in Greenville. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the Dixie Fire has been particularly destructive. It raged through the northern Sierra Nevada town of Greenville on Wednesday evening. A gas station, hotel and bar were among many fixtures gutted in the town, which dates to California’s Gold Rush era and has some structures more than a century old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze exploded on Wednesday and Thursday through timber, grass and brush so dry that one fire official described it as “basically near combustion.” Dozens of homes had already burned before the flames made new runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No deaths or injuries were reported but the fire continued to threaten more than 10,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lost Greenville tonight,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepLaMalfa/posts/2866292373624215?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZUvSRqhAZfIF9MUhKQLGV6nTTgs5Vb6tuqcd6PdbmqRLk9blOxO_E0dwaO9UD9xhM3x3C2ebfASR2aXSrRSIwSdsBWfvVodQ5piNLn6meSiPRQpHXDax-kTtSvjEUhtNc_DwgeqlRokXqTi6Tji81jHrb96N2qrP1D6xDUL6dAjRQ&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\">U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, who represents the area, said in an emotional Facebook video Wednesday night\u003c/a>. “There’s just not words for how us in government haven’t been able to get the job done. We’ll take up the fight even harder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Firefighters also continue to battle the River Fire near the Sierra foothills town of Colfax. The blaze burned dozens of structures Wednesday and forced thousands to seek shelter at hastily set up evacuation centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within minutes it went to a large white plume of smoke and you started getting the alerts from the sheriff’s office, right? ” said Karen WIlliams, who lived near where the River Fire broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire moved fast, she said. Now she and her friend Sandy Mallory are staying in a friend’s RV, and may not be able to go home until August 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EmEffHarvin/status/1423732998235561985\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia Schwendeman has lived in the community of Chicago Park, where the River Fire burned homes, Wednesday. She says she lost her home insurance a few years back, like many residents in fire-prone areas. Now she’s on a state-backed plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And yeah, now I’m playing double for less coverage. So it’s that’s tough on a, especially on well on, anybody. But when you’re on a fixed income, it gets a little challenging,” Schwendeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, evacuations are ongoing as the Dixie Fire spreads. The fire’s northern and eastern sides exploded, and the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office issued a Facebook posting warning the town’s approximately 800 residents, “[Y]ou are in imminent danger and you MUST leave now!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar warning was issued Thursday for residents of another tiny mountain community, Taylorsville, as flames pushed toward the southeast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11883873\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Battalion Chief Sergio Mora looks on as the Dixie Fire burns through downtown Greenville, California, on Aug. 4, 2021. On the same day, officials in Northern California warned residents of two communities in the path of the fire to evacuate immediately as high winds whipped the flames onward. The fire burned through dozens of homes and businesses in Greenville.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1692\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-1536x1015.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-2048x1353.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-1920x1269.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Battalion Chief Sergio Mora looks on as the Dixie Fire burns through downtown Greenville, California, on Aug. 4, 2021. On the same day, officials in Northern California warned residents of two communities in the path of the fire to evacuate immediately as high winds whipped the flames onward. The fire burned through dozens of homes and businesses in Greenville. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To the northwest, crews were protecting homes in the town of Chester. Residents there were among thousands under evacuation orders or warnings in several counties, but no injuries or deaths were immediately reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Elysia Garcia, an artist and writer who has been in Southern California waiting out the fire, watched video of her downtown Greenville office in flames. The office contained 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.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in shock. It’s not that we didn’t think this could happen to us,” she said. “At the same time, it took our whole town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters on Wednesday had to deal with people reluctant to leave. Their refusals meant that firefighters spent precious time loading people into cars to ferry them out, said Jake Cagle, an incident management operations section chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have firefighters that are getting guns pulled out on them, because people don’t want to evacuate,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dixie Fire had consumed about 432,813 acres, according to an estimate released Friday morning. That’s 676 square miles — moving the blaze from the state’s sixth-largest wildfire ever to its third-largest overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire’s cause was under investigation, but Pacific Gas & Electric has said it may have been sparked when a tree fell on one of the utility’s power lines. No injuries or deaths have been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was near the town of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/paradise\">Paradise\u003c/a>, which largely was destroyed in a 2018 wildfire that became the nation’s deadliest in at least a century and was blamed on PG&E equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the weather and towering smoke clouds produced by the fire’s intense, erratic winds kept firefighters struggling to put firefighters at shifting hot spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s wreaking havoc. The winds are kind of changing direction on us every few hours,” said Capt. Sergio Arellano, a fire spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Donnell left Greenville on Wednesday, thinking he’d be right back after a quick errand a few towns over, but couldn’t return as the flames swept through. All he has now are the clothes on his back and his old pickup truck, he said. He’s pretty sure his office and house, with a bag he had prepared for evacuation, is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnell remembered helping victims of 2018’s devastating Camp Fire, in which about 100 friends \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-fires-california-paradise-virus-outbreak-54b133a877274f7e5c16b4558bd305c8\">lost their homes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I have a thousand friends lose their home in a day,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Thursday, the Dixie Fire had become the sixth-largest in state history, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. Four of the state’s other five largest fires happened in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11883879\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1788\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-2048x1431.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buildings burn as the Dixie Fire tears through downtown Greenville, California, on Aug. 4, 2021. On the same day, officials in Northern California warned residents of two communities in the path of the fire to evacuate immediately as high winds whipped the flames onward. The fire burned through dozens of homes and businesses in Greenville. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dozens of homes had already burned before the flames made a new run Wednesday. The U.S. Forest Service said initial reports show that firefighters saved about a quarter of the structures in Greenville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did everything we could,” fire spokesman Mitch Matlow said. “Sometimes it’s just not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 miles south, officials said between 35 and 40 homes and other buildings burned in the fast-moving River Fire that broke out Wednesday near Colfax, a town of about 2,000. Within hours, it ripped through nearly 4 square miles of dry brush and trees. There was no containment and about 6,000 people were ordered to evacuate in Placer and Nevada counties, Cal Fire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Colfax, Jamie Brown ate breakfast at a downtown restaurant Thursday while waiting to learn if his house was still standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He evacuated his property near Rollins Lake a day earlier, when “it looked like the whole town was going to burn down.” Conditions had calmed a bit by Thursday, and he was hoping for the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I figure I better have a nice breakfast before I lose my home,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After firefighters made progress earlier this week, high heat, low humidity and gusty winds erupted Wednesday and were expected to be a continued threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ggweather/status/1417269399183007745\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above, a Bay Area meteorologist tweets a pyrocumulus cloud emerging from the Dixie Fire in July.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dixie Fire was running parallel to a canyon area that served as a chimney, making it so hot that it created enormous \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-19/what-are-pyrocumulus-clouds-california-wildfire-analysis\">pyrocumulus columns\u003c/a> of smoke. These clouds bring chaotic winds, making a fire “critically erratic” so it’s hard to predict the direction of growth, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heatwaves and historic drought tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight in the American West. 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.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883880\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11883880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1555\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-800x486.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-1020x620.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-1536x933.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-2048x1244.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-1920x1167.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flames approach a home as the Dixie Fire moves into Greenville, California, on Aug. 4, 2021. On the same day, officials in Northern California warned residents of two communities in the path of the fire to evacuate immediately as high winds whipped the flames onward. The fire burned through dozens of homes and businesses in Greenville. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Risky weather also was expected across Southern California, where heat advisories and warnings were issued for inland valleys, mountains and deserts for much of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Mary Franklin Harvin and Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this report. AP’s Christopher Weber reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writers Janie Har and Jocelyn Gecker in San Francisco also contributed.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“It’s just completely devastating. We’ve lost our home, my business, our whole downtown area is gone,” said Gorman, who heeded evacuation warnings and left town with her husband a week-and-a-half ago as the Dixie Fire approached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She managed to grab some photos off the wall, her favorite jewelry and important documents but couldn’t help but think of the family treasures left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother’s dining room chairs, my great-aunt’s bed from Italy. There is a photo I keep visualizing in my mind of my son when he was 2. He’s 37 now,” she said. “At first you think, ‘It’s OK, I have the negatives.’ And then you realize, ‘Oh. No. I don’t.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials had not yet assessed the number of destroyed buildings, but Plumas County Sheriff Todd Johns estimated on Thursday that “well over” 100 homes had burned in and near the town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My heart is crushed by what has occurred there,” said Johns, a lifelong Greenville resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities also shut down Lassen Volcanic National Park Thursday because of the explosive wildfire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883878\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11883878\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472110-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters survey a decimated downtown as the Dixie Fire burns through Greenville, California, on Aug. 4, 2021. On the same day, officials in Northern California warned residents of two communities in the path of the fire to evacuate immediately as high winds whipped the flames onward. The fire burned through dozens of homes and businesses in Greenville. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the Dixie Fire has been particularly destructive. It raged through the northern Sierra Nevada town of Greenville on Wednesday evening. A gas station, hotel and bar were among many fixtures gutted in the town, which dates to California’s Gold Rush era and has some structures more than a century old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze exploded on Wednesday and Thursday through timber, grass and brush so dry that one fire official described it as “basically near combustion.” Dozens of homes had already burned before the flames made new runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No deaths or injuries were reported but the fire continued to threaten more than 10,000 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lost Greenville tonight,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RepLaMalfa/posts/2866292373624215?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZUvSRqhAZfIF9MUhKQLGV6nTTgs5Vb6tuqcd6PdbmqRLk9blOxO_E0dwaO9UD9xhM3x3C2ebfASR2aXSrRSIwSdsBWfvVodQ5piNLn6meSiPRQpHXDax-kTtSvjEUhtNc_DwgeqlRokXqTi6Tji81jHrb96N2qrP1D6xDUL6dAjRQ&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R\">U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, who represents the area, said in an emotional Facebook video Wednesday night\u003c/a>. “There’s just not words for how us in government haven’t been able to get the job done. We’ll take up the fight even harder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Firefighters also continue to battle the River Fire near the Sierra foothills town of Colfax. The blaze burned dozens of structures Wednesday and forced thousands to seek shelter at hastily set up evacuation centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Within minutes it went to a large white plume of smoke and you started getting the alerts from the sheriff’s office, right? ” said Karen WIlliams, who lived near where the River Fire broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire moved fast, she said. Now she and her friend Sandy Mallory are staying in a friend’s RV, and may not be able to go home until August 15.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Claudia Schwendeman has lived in the community of Chicago Park, where the River Fire burned homes, Wednesday. She says she lost her home insurance a few years back, like many residents in fire-prone areas. Now she’s on a state-backed plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And yeah, now I’m playing double for less coverage. So it’s that’s tough on a, especially on well on, anybody. But when you’re on a fixed income, it gets a little challenging,” Schwendeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, evacuations are ongoing as the Dixie Fire spreads. The fire’s northern and eastern sides exploded, and the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office issued a Facebook posting warning the town’s approximately 800 residents, “[Y]ou are in imminent danger and you MUST leave now!!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar warning was issued Thursday for residents of another tiny mountain community, Taylorsville, as flames pushed toward the southeast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11883873\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Battalion Chief Sergio Mora looks on as the Dixie Fire burns through downtown Greenville, California, on Aug. 4, 2021. On the same day, officials in Northern California warned residents of two communities in the path of the fire to evacuate immediately as high winds whipped the flames onward. The fire burned through dozens of homes and businesses in Greenville.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1692\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-800x529.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-1020x674.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-1536x1015.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-2048x1353.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472129-1920x1269.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Battalion Chief Sergio Mora looks on as the Dixie Fire burns through downtown Greenville, California, on Aug. 4, 2021. On the same day, officials in Northern California warned residents of two communities in the path of the fire to evacuate immediately as high winds whipped the flames onward. The fire burned through dozens of homes and businesses in Greenville. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To the northwest, crews were protecting homes in the town of Chester. Residents there were among thousands under evacuation orders or warnings in several counties, but no injuries or deaths were immediately reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Elysia Garcia, an artist and writer who has been in Southern California waiting out the fire, watched video of her downtown Greenville office in flames. The office contained 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.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in shock. It’s not that we didn’t think this could happen to us,” she said. “At the same time, it took our whole town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters on Wednesday had to deal with people reluctant to leave. Their refusals meant that firefighters spent precious time loading people into cars to ferry them out, said Jake Cagle, an incident management operations section chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have firefighters that are getting guns pulled out on them, because people don’t want to evacuate,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dixie Fire had consumed about 432,813 acres, according to an estimate released Friday morning. That’s 676 square miles — moving the blaze from the state’s sixth-largest wildfire ever to its third-largest overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire’s cause was under investigation, but Pacific Gas & Electric has said it may have been sparked when a tree fell on one of the utility’s power lines. No injuries or deaths have been reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was near the town of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/paradise\">Paradise\u003c/a>, which largely was destroyed in a 2018 wildfire that became the nation’s deadliest in at least a century and was blamed on PG&E equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the weather and towering smoke clouds produced by the fire’s intense, erratic winds kept firefighters struggling to put firefighters at shifting hot spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s wreaking havoc. The winds are kind of changing direction on us every few hours,” said Capt. Sergio Arellano, a fire spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Donnell left Greenville on Wednesday, thinking he’d be right back after a quick errand a few towns over, but couldn’t return as the flames swept through. All he has now are the clothes on his back and his old pickup truck, he said. He’s pretty sure his office and house, with a bag he had prepared for evacuation, is gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donnell remembered helping victims of 2018’s devastating Camp Fire, in which about 100 friends \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-fires-california-paradise-virus-outbreak-54b133a877274f7e5c16b4558bd305c8\">lost their homes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now I have a thousand friends lose their home in a day,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Thursday, the Dixie Fire had become the sixth-largest in state history, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. Four of the state’s other five largest fires happened in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11883879\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1788\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-1536x1073.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-2048x1431.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472598-1920x1341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buildings burn as the Dixie Fire tears through downtown Greenville, California, on Aug. 4, 2021. 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There was no containment and about 6,000 people were ordered to evacuate in Placer and Nevada counties, Cal Fire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Colfax, Jamie Brown ate breakfast at a downtown restaurant Thursday while waiting to learn if his house was still standing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He evacuated his property near Rollins Lake a day earlier, when “it looked like the whole town was going to burn down.” Conditions had calmed a bit by Thursday, and he was hoping for the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I figure I better have a nice breakfast before I lose my home,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After firefighters made progress earlier this week, high heat, low humidity and gusty winds erupted Wednesday and were expected to be a continued threat.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Above, a Bay Area meteorologist tweets a pyrocumulus cloud emerging from the Dixie Fire in July.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dixie Fire was running parallel to a canyon area that served as a chimney, making it so hot that it created enormous \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-19/what-are-pyrocumulus-clouds-california-wildfire-analysis\">pyrocumulus columns\u003c/a> of smoke. These clouds bring chaotic winds, making a fire “critically erratic” so it’s hard to predict the direction of growth, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heatwaves and historic drought tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight in the American West. 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.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883880\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11883880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1555\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-800x486.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-1020x620.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-1536x933.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-2048x1244.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234472694-1920x1167.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flames approach a home as the Dixie Fire moves into Greenville, California, on Aug. 4, 2021. On the same day, officials in Northern California warned residents of two communities in the path of the fire to evacuate immediately as high winds whipped the flames onward. The fire burned through dozens of homes and businesses in Greenville. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Risky weather also was expected across Southern California, where heat advisories and warnings were issued for inland valleys, mountains and deserts for much of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In an aggressive move to address “immediate and dire water shortages,” California’s water board on Tuesday unanimously approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drought/delta/docs/080321_5_drftregs.pdf\">emergency regulations\u003c/a> to temporarily stop thousands of farmers, landowners and others from diverting water from from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new regulations — the first to take such widespread action for the massive delta watershed stretching from Fresno to the border with Oregon — could lead to formal curtailment orders for about 5,700 water rights holders as soon as Aug. 16. The decision comes on the heels of curtailment orders issued to nearly 900 water users along the drought-stricken Russian River, with 222 more expected next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Adam Gray, D-Merced\"]‘Growers will have to risk significant fines and penalties just to find out whether the Board actually has the authority it claims. Either way, they lose.’[/pullquote]The \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/about_us/board_members/\">five water board members\u003c/a>, who were appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom or former Gov. Jerry Brown, approved the rule despite vehement opposition from representatives of Central Valley growers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://grove.cssrc.us/\">Shannon Grove\u003c/a>, R-Bakersfield, said the regulation would “disrupt the critical production of essential food … Instead, the state should focus on expanding water storage and upgrading its existing water infrastructure, not punish local water managers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://a21.asmdc.org/\">Adam Gray\u003c/a>, D-Merced, called the curtailment orders for senior water rights holders “one of the most destructive measures possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Board’s legal authority is by no means certain,” Gray wrote to the board. “Growers will have to risk significant fines and penalties just to find out whether the Board actually has the authority it claims. Either way, they lose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water users who continue to divert could face penalties of up to $1,000 per day plus $2,500 per acre-foot of illegally diverted water, according to Erik Ekdahl, deputy director of the board’s division of water rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883743\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1020px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11883743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1330092212-1020x680-1.jpg\" alt=\"A grey-colored buoy sits on the floor of a lake. The buoy sits on wet sand as there is barely any water. Only a puddle is visible behind the buoy.\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1330092212-1020x680-1.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1330092212-1020x680-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1330092212-1020x680-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A buoy sits on the exposed floor of Lake Oroville on July 22, 2021. Most of California is experiencing an extreme drought, with May and June the warmest and driest on record since 1896. Lake Oroville, one of California’s largest reservoirs, is expected to reach a new historic low in October. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of California is experiencing an extreme drought, with May and June were the warmest and driest on record since 1896. Lake Oroville, one of California’s largest reservoirs, is expected to reach a new historic low in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand for water from rivers and streams has outstripped supply 16-fold in the San Joaquin River watershed and three-fold in the Sacramento River, according to State Water Resources Control Board staff. Dwindling flows risk salty backwash from the Pacific, tainting supplies for drinking, farmers and fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture\"]‘Mother Nature and climate change have brought us the situation that we have … not making these decisions would have even more horrendous impacts for people.’[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/SecretaryBio.htm\">Karen Ross\u003c/a>, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, told the water board that “this year there’s plenty of pain to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mother Nature and climate change have brought us the situation that we have. And therefore the decisions that you have to make have very real impacts on people. But not making these decisions would have even more horrendous impacts for people,” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, six growers organizations, including the California Farm Bureau and the Almond Alliance of California, said in a comment letter that the board does not have authority to curtail the rights of users with claims for properties next to waterways or that predate 1914 — the year California \u003ca href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_info/water_rights_process.html\">enacted its water rights law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Treading lightly there is probably a good idea on a prudential basis,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.cfbf.com/lawyersbio/daniel-test/\">Chris Scheuring\u003c/a>, senior counsel for the California Farm Bureau, said at Tuesday’s meeting. He also warned that smaller growers “could run afoul of an order or something in a very inadvertent way. We don’t want draconian penalties there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a face behind all of this,” he said. “And those faces actually include my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irrigation districts also warned that the water board acted too quickly and may have violated due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just too fast, you’ve got to listen to stakeholders in this process,” said Valerie Kincaid, a water law attorney who represents the \u003ca href=\"http://sjta.wpengine.com/\">San Joaquin Tributaries Authority\u003c/a>, a coalition of irrigation districts and water agencies. “We now have a draft regulation that exceeds water board authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Diane Bond, Shasta County resident\"]‘We have no water for fire suppression and the fish and wildlife are dying. We have put out water for the wildlife near our property. It is heart-wrenching to see our creek dry.’[/pullquote]A similar critique came during the last drought when, in 2015, six irrigation districts sued the state over its efforts to stop some delta diversions. A Superior Court judge \u003ca href=\"https://bbid.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/BBID-Stmnt-of-Decision-Order-2-21-18.pdf\">ruled that the state violated their due process\u003c/a> by failing to give them a “meaningful opportunity, including some form of public hearing, to challenge the board’s finding before they are ordered to curtail their water use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time, state officials said \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/07/california-delta-drought/\">at a July workshop\u003c/a> that they were giving ample notice and opportunity for input. They said the governor’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/05/drought-emergency-declared-central-valley-klamath/\">drought emergency declarations\u003c/a> ensured they were “on very firm legal footing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some residents, however, urged the water board to act quickly. One Shasta County resident, Diane Bond, wrote that because of heavy diversions, a critical creek in the region is all but dry. She urged the board to consider stopping all diversions regardless of seniority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no water for fire suppression and the fish and wildlife are dying. We have put out water for the wildlife near our property. It is heart-wrenching to see our creek dry,” Bond wrote. “These are desperate times and water is so scarce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883747\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1290px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11883747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/AP_LakeOroville_052321_01.jpg\" alt=\"A wide shot of Lake Oroville that shows the mountains that surround the lake. There's very little vegetation surrounding the lake and the grass around the lake is dry and yellow.\" width=\"1290\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/AP_LakeOroville_052321_01.jpg 1290w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/AP_LakeOroville_052321_01-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/AP_LakeOroville_052321_01-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/AP_LakeOroville_052321_01-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1290px) 100vw, 1290px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A boat crosses Lake Oroville on May 23, 2021. At the time, the reservoir was at 39% of capacity and 46% of its historical average. The low water levels have worried residents. ‘We have no water for fire suppression and the fish and wildlife are dying,” said Diane Bond, a resident of Shasta County. ‘We have put out water for the wildlife near our property. It is heart-wrenching to see our creek dry.’ \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A representative of the Westlands Water District, which relies on stored federal water supplies that flow through the delta, said he supported the water board’s regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will protect transfer water that’s been acquired to help mitigate, in part, the impacts of drought,” said \u003ca href=\"https://wwd.ca.gov/about-westlands/organizationstaff/\">Jon Rubin\u003c/a>, WWD assistant general manager and general counsel. “They will also help protect stored water, and for those reasons Westland supports the resolution that’s been presented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='drought']Supplies of up to 55 gallons per person per day for minimum human health and safety needs, such as drinking and household use, are exempted from the curtailments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Vallejo urged the water board in a public comment letter to increase the 55 gallon cap, or change the way it’s calculated. The limit is “too rigid,” said Vallejo Water Department Operations Manager Beth Schoenberger “and will be very difficult to implement in areas without a firm population count.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Small community water systems and the Merced County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce warned in letters to the board that without surface water, growers may fall back on groundwater wells sucking from already depleted basins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I urge you to consider that this will result in local wells under-producing or simply not producing at all, as well as reduced overall water quality,” Daniel Chavez, district manager for the Planada Community Services District, wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett said her office hadn’t yet decided which charges to file, but it planned to do so before the September anniversary of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/search?q=zogg&site=all\">Zogg Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said in the report filed Sunday that it was cooperating with the U.S. Forest Service’s investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The data currently available to PG&E do not establish the cause of the Fly Fire,” the utility said, noting that the information in the report was still preliminary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E officials were scheduled to testify Tuesday during a previously scheduled hearing by the Public Utilities Commission on the practice of companies instituting widespread power outages to prevent equipment from sparking wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E, San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison were criticized for their chaotic and unprepared handling of shutoffs in October 2019. 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Allen’s past attempts at sweeping legislation that would ban non-recyclable plastic packaging died, even as environmentalists — and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?lang=en&q=SB%2054%20(from%3Akellyslater)&src=typed_query\">a superstar surfer\u003c/a> — urged its passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid these repeated legislative failures at the Capitol, environmentalists have pushed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/initiative-and-referendum-status/eligible-statewide-initiative-measures\">plastic recycling initiative that is eligible for the November 2022 statewide ballot\u003c/a>. It would \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/07/prohibited-gun-owners/\">levy a new 1-cent tax on producers of single-use plastic\u003c/a>, and require single-use plastic packaging, containers, and utensils to be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2030. The tax money would buoy recycling and environmental programs. 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Evacuation orders for about 2,000 residents on both sides of the state line were lifted earlier in the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom touted the partnerships between Western states as key in preparing for what could be a record-breaking fire season. “California and Nevada have long-standing partnerships that are well established,” he said. “It’s all about mutual aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, both Newsom and Sisolak stressed that greater federal support is needed. “It’s not an indictment, it’s not finger-pointing, it’s not novel, it’s not new to the Biden administration or even the previous administration,” Newsom said, adding that the federal approach toward wildfires needs to be reworked to meet the demands of a hotter climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have enough resources,” said Sisolak. “It’s a simple mathematical equation. 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