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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 11 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 9, 2021:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thick smoke that held down winds and temperatures cleared Monday from the forestlands of Butte, Plumas and Lassen counties as firefighters battling the second-largest wildfire in state history braced for a return of fire-friendly weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly clear skies will allow more than two dozen helicopters and two air tankers that have been grounded to fly again and make it safer for ground crews to maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winds were not expected to reach the ferocious speeds that helped the Dixie Fire explode in size last week. 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. It had scorched an area more than twice the size of New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With smoke clearing out on eastern portions of the fire, crews that had been directly attacking the front lines would be forced to retreat and build containment lines farther back, said Dan McKeague, a fire information officer from the U.S. Forest Service. On the plus side, better visibility should allow planes and helicopters to return to the firefight and make it safer for ground crews to maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as that air clears, we can fly again,” McKeague said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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More than 20 people were initially reported missing, but by Saturday afternoon authorities had contacted all but four of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kesia Studebaker, Greenville resident\"]'We knew we didn't get enough rainfall and fires could happen, but we didn't expect a monster like this.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews have constructed 465 miles of line around the massive blaze, Deputy Incident Commander Chris Waters said. That’s about the distance from the central California city of Chico to Los Angeles. But officials are only confident that about 20% of the line is secure, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every bit of that line needs to be constructed, staffed, mopped up and actually put to bed before we can call this fire fully contained,” Waters said during Saturday evening’s incident briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884327\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1886px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11884327\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1886\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-scaled.jpg 1886w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-800x1086.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-1020x1384.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-160x217.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-1132x1536.jpg 1132w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-1509x2048.jpg 1509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1886px) 100vw, 1886px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This before-and-after series from the Dixie Fire in Greenville shows homeowner Jerry Whipple (top, on the right) speaking to a neighbor about ignoring a mandatory evacuation order in front of his home on July 23, 2021, and after the home burned on August 7, 2021. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erratic winds were predicted again Sunday afternoon. 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>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. It had scorched an area more than twice the size of New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With smoke clearing out on eastern portions of the fire, crews that had been directly attacking the front lines would be forced to retreat and build containment lines farther back, said Dan McKeague, a fire information officer from the U.S. Forest Service. On the plus side, better visibility should allow planes and helicopters to return to the firefight and make it safer for ground crews to maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as that air clears, we can fly again,” McKeague said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom surveyed the damage in Greenville Saturday, and said in a video posted to Twitter that firefighters were doing \"heroic work,\" but the state has to do more in active forest management and vegetation management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day though, we also have to acknowledge this, the dries are getting a lot drier, the heat and hot weather is a lot hotter than it's ever been, the extreme weather conditions, the extreme droughts, are leading to extreme conditions and wildfire challenges the likes of which we've never seen in our history,\" Newsom said. \"We need to acknowledge, just straight up. these are climate-induced wildfires.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884329\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11884329\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234580121-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2325\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234580121-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234580121-1-800x969.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234580121-1-1020x1235.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234580121-1-160x194.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234580121-1-1268x1536.jpg 1268w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234580121-1-1691x2048.jpg 1691w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this before-and-after series from the Dixie Fire, a home burns (top) on July 24, 2021, and the remains are seen two days later in the Indian Falls neighborhood of unincorporated Plumas County. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Four firefighters were taken to the hospital Friday after being struck by a fallen branch. More than 20 people were initially reported missing, but by Saturday afternoon authorities had contacted all but four of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews have constructed 465 miles of line around the massive blaze, Deputy Incident Commander Chris Waters said. That’s about the distance from the central California city of Chico to Los Angeles. But officials are only confident that about 20% of the line is secure, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every bit of that line needs to be constructed, staffed, mopped up and actually put to bed before we can call this fire fully contained,” Waters said during Saturday evening’s incident briefing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884327\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1886px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11884327\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1886\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-scaled.jpg 1886w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-800x1086.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-1020x1384.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-160x217.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-1132x1536.jpg 1132w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/GettyImages-1234578875-1-1509x2048.jpg 1509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1886px) 100vw, 1886px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This before-and-after series from the Dixie Fire in Greenville shows homeowner Jerry Whipple (top, on the right) speaking to a neighbor about ignoring a mandatory evacuation order in front of his home on July 23, 2021, and after the home burned on August 7, 2021. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erratic winds were predicted again Sunday afternoon. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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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"title": "'We Lost Greenville': Dixie Fire Becomes Third-Largest Wildfire in State History, Decimates California Town",
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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>\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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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. 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But due to the extremely dry conditions and fuels, as the week progresses and temperatures rise, aggressive fire behavior is likely to quickly rebound,” the Tuesday morning situation report stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new damage assessment found that the lightning-sparked fire has destroyed 161 residences, 247 outbuildings and 342 vehicles in Klamath and Lake counties, the report said, cautioning that the numbers could increase as firefighters work through interior of the fire area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='2021-wildfires']In Montana, four firefighters were released from a hospital and a fifth was being treated at a burn center Monday after a wildfire overran them last week, authorities said. Crews were trying to keep the 10-square-mile Devil’s Creek Fire from reaching Fort Peck Reservoir along the Missouri River in Garfield County. 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"content": "\u003cp>With PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11881579/pge-power-line-may-have-sparked-dixie-fire-near-where-its-equipment-started-states-deadliest-blaze\">announcement earlier this week\u003c/a> that one of its power lines is under investigation as the cause of yet another destructive Northern California wildfire, attention has focused on the company’s account that nine and a half hours elapsed after the first indication of trouble in the Feather River Canyon before one of the company’s field workers reached the spot where a small fire was beginning to spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of statements, including public comments from the utility’s CEO, PG&E has blamed the delay on the worker’s difficulty accessing the remote location where a tree had fallen on a power line and ignited the blaze that turned into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/7/14/dixie-fire/\">Dixie Fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the prosecutors investigating the company’s possible role in starting the Dixie Fire, which had burned more than 100,000 acres as of early Thursday, said the utility did not consider a power outage it had detected in the area early on July 13 to be a high-priority issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, said Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey, the worker assigned to investigate the outage did not arrive in the area until as much as four hours after the the problem was detected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s just one in a series of delays and obstacles that together may have turned a minor incident into an inferno that has raged through the northern Sierra Nevada forests for 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21011766/071821.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an electrical incident report\u003c/a> to state utility regulators, PG&E said the first indication of trouble the day the fire started, July 13, was a 7 a.m. power outage at Cresta Dam. The dam is part of the company’s complex of hydropower facilities on the North Fork of the Feather River, northeast of Oroville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey, whose agency is investigating the incident alongside Cal Fire and the Plumas County District Attorney’s Office, said the utility’s response was delayed in part because the initial power outage was not considered a high-priority issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11881579 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/DixieFirePyrocumulus-1020x695.jpg']Ramsey said in an interview earlier this week that PG&E issued a “work ticket” after a remote monitoring system detected the problem at the dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They put in a ticket — not a high-priority ticket, just a regular ticket, for a lineman in Chico to go check on it,” Ramsey said. First, though, he had “other things to do — higher-priority tickets.” Ramsey estimated the worker got to Cresta Dam about 10:30 or 11 a.m., as much as four hours after the power problem there had been flagged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once at the dam, Ramsey said, the worker needed to scout for the source of the power problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to PG&E’s account, he spotted what appeared to be a blown fuse on a power line across the Feather River and hundreds of feet up the canyon’s precipitous slope. The site of the potential problem was just a quarter-mile from the dam as the crow flies, but it would take the worker hours to reach it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get there, he had to drive back down Highway 70 to the community of Pulga, where the route crosses the river. Then he had to drive about 10 miles up Camp Creek Road, a one-lane dirt road that passes the spot where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11705306/pge-transmission-line-may-be-tied-to-disastrous-butte-county-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a PG&E transmission line started the Camp Fire\u003c/a> early the morning of Nov. 8, 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1whAYyxH56Ms3bva5UcjCiYbnlWFcR7Av\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trip up the steep, winding road would have been slow under any conditions. Describing the character of the route the worker traveled, Ramsey said, “There’s an old statement, ‘They’re barely passable — not even jackass-able.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight miles up the road — still well short of the power line segment with the apparent blown fuse — the driver encountered a roadblock: a Butte County public works crew repairing a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was turned back there,” Ramsey said. “They told him, nah, it’s going to be at least a couple, two and a half hours” before they’d be done with the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Pack, the county’s director of public works, said the crew was working to repair “significant damage” to the one-lane span that had been reported on July 9. Pack said the bridge deck had suffered “multiple failures,” likely due to an oversized vehicle that had used the span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to cross the bridge for the time being, the PG&E worker turned around and drove all the way back down to Highway 70, then another six miles back toward Oroville to a spot where he’d get better radio reception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882002\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882002\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A PG&E worker making his way up Camp Creek Road in Butte County was initially unable to proceed to the suspected source of the trouble because a road crew was repairing damage to this bridge. Trouble on the power line is suspected of touching off the Dixie Fire on July 13, 2021. The photo was taken about six hours before the fire was discovered. \u003ccite>(Butte County Department of Public Works)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker discussed with a dispatcher coming back to Chico to do other work, but given the extra travel time that would add, he decided to wait for the bridge on Camp Creek Road to open. It wasn’t until 4:30 p.m. that the worker finally made it up to and over the bridge and reached the spot where trouble was unfolding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey echoed PG&E’s account that once the worker reached the scene, he discovered a small fire on the ground near a tree that had fallen onto the power lines. Fuses had blown on two of the three lines running across the tops of the poles at the site, Ramsey said, but the third line was apparently still live and may have helped ignite the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker attempted to call the fire in to a PG&E dispatcher via radio, but got no response. He then attempted to put out the fire, which was spreading slowly on a steep slope below the road, by himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker made two “forays” to try to control the blaze, one while carrying a fire extinguisher, one while using equipment from a fire backpack in his truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worker then heard someone on the radio answering his earlier call. He got back on the radio, which led to an emergency call being made to Cal Fire. Ramsey said Cal Fire got the alert from PG&E two minutes after a team of firefighters driving up Highway 70, across the river from the blaze, reported it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cal Fire dispatch audio, the passing firefighters estimated the blaze was about 40 feet by 40 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In comments made during media briefings Wednesday, PG&E CEO Patti Poppe said the worker “alone, by himself, in the wilderness, made multiple trips … from the top of the slope, where his truck was, down to the source of the fire, attempting to put it out. His efforts can be called nothing less than heroic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E declined to respond to detailed questions about the timeline of its response, including what time its worker first reached Cresta Dam to look for trouble and what delays he encountered along the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='pge']Once the fire was reported, Cal Fire dispatched a pair of air tankers and a water-dropping helicopter to hold the fire in check as ground crews tried to reach the incident. But getting to the scene proved as daunting for those crews as it had for the PG&E worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal Fire engine and a bus carrying a 20-member hand crew made their way up Camp Creek Road only to find the out-of-service bridge. The hand crew arrived at the bridge after 8 p.m. and still faced a hike of two miles to get to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cal Fire air tankers succeeded in painting a box of retardant around the fire, limiting its spread, and the helicopter took advantage of ready access to the Feather River to make drop after drop on the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said that effort was on the verge of success when a drone appeared over the blaze. That led Cal Fire to prematurely end air operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said drone interference cost about 45 minutes in firefighting time, which he said played a major part in the blaze burning out of control after darkness fell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, Cal Fire estimated the fire was just one to two acres and spreading slowly. 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The site of the potential problem was just a quarter-mile from the dam as the crow flies, but it would take the worker hours to reach it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get there, he had to drive back down Highway 70 to the community of Pulga, where the route crosses the river. 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Describing the character of the route the worker traveled, Ramsey said, “There’s an old statement, ‘They’re barely passable — not even jackass-able.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight miles up the road — still well short of the power line segment with the apparent blown fuse — the driver encountered a roadblock: a Butte County public works crew repairing a bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was turned back there,” Ramsey said. “They told him, nah, it’s going to be at least a couple, two and a half hours” before they’d be done with the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josh Pack, the county’s director of public works, said the crew was working to repair “significant damage” to the one-lane span that had been reported on July 9. Pack said the bridge deck had suffered “multiple failures,” likely due to an oversized vehicle that had used the span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to cross the bridge for the time being, the PG&E worker turned around and drove all the way back down to Highway 70, then another six miles back toward Oroville to a spot where he’d get better radio reception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11882002\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11882002\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/IMG_20210713_105628.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A PG&E worker making his way up Camp Creek Road in Butte County was initially unable to proceed to the suspected source of the trouble because a road crew was repairing damage to this bridge. Trouble on the power line is suspected of touching off the Dixie Fire on July 13, 2021. The photo was taken about six hours before the fire was discovered. \u003ccite>(Butte County Department of Public Works)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker discussed with a dispatcher coming back to Chico to do other work, but given the extra travel time that would add, he decided to wait for the bridge on Camp Creek Road to open. It wasn’t until 4:30 p.m. that the worker finally made it up to and over the bridge and reached the spot where trouble was unfolding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey echoed PG&E’s account that once the worker reached the scene, he discovered a small fire on the ground near a tree that had fallen onto the power lines. Fuses had blown on two of the three lines running across the tops of the poles at the site, Ramsey said, but the third line was apparently still live and may have helped ignite the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker attempted to call the fire in to a PG&E dispatcher via radio, but got no response. He then attempted to put out the fire, which was spreading slowly on a steep slope below the road, by himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramsey said the worker made two “forays” to try to control the blaze, one while carrying a fire extinguisher, one while using equipment from a fire backpack in his truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worker then heard someone on the radio answering his earlier call. He got back on the radio, which led to an emergency call being made to Cal Fire. Ramsey said Cal Fire got the alert from PG&E two minutes after a team of firefighters driving up Highway 70, across the river from the blaze, reported it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cal Fire dispatch audio, the passing firefighters estimated the blaze was about 40 feet by 40 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In comments made during media briefings Wednesday, PG&E CEO Patti Poppe said the worker “alone, by himself, in the wilderness, made multiple trips … from the top of the slope, where his truck was, down to the source of the fire, attempting to put it out. His efforts can be called nothing less than heroic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E declined to respond to detailed questions about the timeline of its response, including what time its worker first reached Cresta Dam to look for trouble and what delays he encountered along the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E plans to bury 10,000 miles of its power lines in an effort to prevent its electrical grid from sparking wildfires across drought-stricken California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project announced Wednesday would focus on undergrounding PG&E distribution lines in wildfire-prone parts of its service area at a projected cost of $15 billion to $30 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility believes it will find ways to keep the final bill at the lower end of those estimates. Most of the costs will likely be shouldered by PG&E customers, whose electricity rates are already among the highest in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E made the announcement three days after informing regulators that one of its power lines is under investigation for igniting the Dixie Fire in Butte and Plumas counties. The blaze began July 13 just a few miles from the spot where one of the company’s transmission lines sparked the 2018 Camp Fire, which killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 14,000 homes in and around the town of Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it started last week, the Dixie Fire has churned northeast through the Sierra Nevada. By Wednesday morning, the fire had burned 86,000 acres and forced thousands from their homes. Its continuing growth prompted Plumas County authorities to order new evacuations along the west shore of popular Lake Almanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlash to PG&E’s potential liability for the Dixie Fire prompted the company’s recently hired CEO, Patricia “Patti” Poppe, to unveil the plan for underground lines several months earlier than she said she planned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previous PG&E regimes have resisted plans to bury long stretches of power lines because of the massive expense involved, which the company has estimated at $3 million per mile. The company says it has about 25,000 miles of distribution lines that run through areas designated by state agencies as high fire-threat districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poppe told reporters on Wednesday that she quickly realized after she joined PG&E in January that moving lines underground is the best way to protect both the utility and the 16 million people who rely on it for power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s too expensive not to do it. Lives are on the line,” Poppe told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting the job done within the next decade will require a quantum leap in how fast overhead lines can be buried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current undergrounding process is slow, as illustrated by a project in Paradise. After the Camp Fire, the company committed to bury 207 miles of lines. To date, it has completed just 70 miles of work there. The company said Wednesday the most line it has buried in a single day is 1,250 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PG&E expects to eventually be able to bury more than 1,000 miles of power lines annually, said its chief operating officer, Adam Wright. While Wright likened the project to the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Europe after World War II, Poppe invoked President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 pledge for the U.S. to land on the moon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E’s path to this point has been strewn with death and destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After previous leaders allowed its equipment to fall into disrepair in an apparent attempt to boost profits and management bonuses, the utility’s grid was blamed for igniting a series of devastating wildfires in 2017 and 2018 that prompted the company to file for bankruptcy in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since getting out of bankruptcy, PG&E also has been rebuked by California power regulators and a federal judge overseeing its criminal probation for breaking promises to reduce the dangers posed by trees near its power lines. The utility \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/wildfires-fires-california-utilities-39cb02801df6d461dc979e735a7ff917\">has also been charged\u003c/a> with another round of fire-related crimes that it denies committing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poppe insisted things are getting better this year under a plan that calls for PG&E to spend $1.4 billion removing more than 300,000 trees and trimming another 1.1 million. But she conceded the utility is “not making enough progress” since it’s only a fraction of the 8 million trees within striking distance of its power lines.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>PG&E said in a report filed with state utility regulators late Sunday night that Cal Fire is investigating the company's equipment as the possible cause of a wildland blaze that's burned nearly 50 square miles of forest land in Butte and Plumas counties. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says Cal Fire investigators collected parts of a power line and other possible evidence, including portions of a tree that came into contact with the line, from the location where the fire was first seen last Tuesday, July 13. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sunday night report and a separate PG&E statement said the company was disclosing the information \"in an abundance of caution\" and is cooperating with Cal Fire's investigation. Cal Fire confirmed it's investigating but declined further comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2021/7/14/dixie-fire/\">Dixie Fire\u003c/a> started in the Feather River Canyon just 5 miles upstream from the spot where a PG&E transmission line touched off the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California's recorded history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21011766/071821.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">electrical incident report\u003c/a> to the California Public Utilities Commission, PG&E described a 10-hour series of events that began 7 a.m. on July 13 with a power outage at its Cresta hydropower dam on the Feather River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says a field worker — referred to in the report as a troubleman — was dispatched to the area, along Highway 70 about 30 miles northeast of Oroville, to investigate. The company's report does not say when the worker was dispatched. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The responding PG&E troubleman observed from a distance what he thought was a blown fuse\" on a power line. But getting to the line – a lower-voltage distribution line strung across wooden poles — proved difficult. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only access to the spot, along a rugged dirt track called Storrie Road, was by way of another backcountry route called Camp Creek Road. PG&E says its worker drove along that road until he reached an out-of-service bridge and was forced to walk the rest of the way to the location of the possible blown fuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he finally reached that spot it was 4:40 p.m., the company says — nearly 10 hours after the first indication of trouble in the area. In addition to finding that two of three fuses at the location had blown, the company report says, the worker discovered a \"healthy green tree leaning into [a power line], which was still intact and suspended on the poles. He also observed a fire on the ground near the base of the tree.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After removing the still-intact fuse, the worker alerted a supervisor, who then called 911. But by then, Cal Fire already knew about the blaze. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11880651,news_11879943,news_11875846 label='Related Coverage']Just after 5 p.m., a passing Sutter County fire crew alerted Cal Fire dispatchers to a small blaze burning \"near the power lines\" on the other side of the river. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crew leader estimated the size of the fire at 40 feet by 40 feet. Cal Fire air tankers and helicopters responded within an hour in hopes of dropping enough water and retardant on the blaze to limit its spread until ground crews could arrive. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting access to the fire scene also proved daunting for those ground forces, which initially included half a dozen fire engines, two hand crews, a bulldozer and three water tenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Cal Fire engine and a bus carrying a 20-member hand crew made their way up Camp Creek Road only to find the impassable bridge. The hand crew arrived at the disabled bridge after 8 p.m., nearly three hours after it was dispatched, and still faced a hike of at least a mile to get to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire commanders decided to hold off on sending reinforcements up Camp Creek Road. Instead, just before 9 p.m., they dispatched engines and water tenders to a remote road called 300 U Line that a single Cal Fire engine had scouted and found to have access to the fire scene from the slope above. Getting to the U Line site, however, required a drive of about 20 miles from a staging location on Highway 70 — much of it on a series of steep, twisting dirt roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One final factor limited Cal Fire's early response to the blaze: Shortly before 8 p.m., air operations were halted when a private drone was spotted over the fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Cal Fire issued a statement at 8:45 p.m. that sounded an optimistic note about containing the fire. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Air resources were able to ... hold the fire to approximately 1 to 2 acres,\" the statement said. \"Air tankers dropped at least 7,000 gallons of retardant, while [a] helicopter was able to consistently take and drop water from the Feather River, which was right below the fire. Ground resources were able to hike into the fire and will begin to construct line around the fire and hold the fire at its current size.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday morning, Cal Fire reported the Dixie Fire has burned more than 30,000 acres and is 15% contained. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze spread rapidly on Sunday, jumping the Feather River and growing to about 19,000 acres before sunset. The rapid spread of the fire prompted mandatory evacuation orders in several Butte and Plumas county communities north and east of the blaze, including along the river and near Bucks Lake.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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