Thick smoke that holds the wind and temperature in the largest single fire zone in California’s history is cleaned Monday from the stock forest, allowing firefighters to rejoin the battle containing massive fire.
The new sky clear will allow more than two dozen helicopters and two air tankers that have been based to fly again and make it safer for the land crew to maneuver.
“ With this weather, fire activities will increase.
But the good thing is that we can get on a plane, ” said Ryan Bain’s spokesman.
The wind was not expected to reach malignant speed which helped Blaze explode in size last week.
But they are still a concern of firefighters who work in unprecedented conditions to protect thousands of houses threatened.
Driven by strong gusts and dry vegetation, fire burned many small Greenville communities last Wednesday and Thursday.
At least 627 homes and other structures have been destroyed on Mondays and 14,000 other buildings are still threatened in the North Sierra Nevada.
The damage report is the introduction because the assessment team cannot enter many areas, officials said.
The Dixie fire, which was named for a road where it began almost four weeks ago, grew to an area of 765 square miles (1,980 square kilometers) on Sunday night and only 21% was contained, according to the Forestry Protection Department and California fire.
It was scorched area more than twice the size of New York City.
Four firefighters were taken to the hospital Friday after being shocked by the falling branch.
More than 30 people were initially reported missing, but on Monday the Sheriff County Plumas office contributed them all.
With smoke that cleans up the eastern part of the fire, the crew that has directly attacked the front line will be forced to retreat and build further detention lines, said and McKeague, firefighting information officers from the US Forest Service.
Blaze became the largest single fire in California who was recorded, surpassed the fire last year in the Agricultural Area of the Central Valley.
The Dixie Fire is about half a complex size of August, a series of 2020 fires caused by lightning in seven districts fought together and that state officials consider California’s largest fires as a whole.
The cause of the fire is being investigated.
The Pacific Gas & Electric says may have been triggered when a tree falls on one of its electrical channels.
A federal judge ordered PG & E on Friday to provide details on August 16 on equipment and vegetation where the fire began.
Gov.
Gavin Newsom surveyed the damage in Greenville during the weekend, wrote on Twitter which `our hearts hurt for this city.
“This is a forest fires caused by the climate and we must admit that we have the capacity not only.
The country but in this country to complete this, ” said Newsom in CNN.
Heat waves and historical droughts related to climate change have made fires more difficult to fight in West America.
Scientists say climate change has made the area much warmer and more dried in the last 30 years and will continue to make the weather more extreme and forest fires more often and damage.
The fire in the West came when parts of Europe also fought large blazes driven by bone dry conditions.
Northwest of the Dixie Fire in Shasta-Trinity National Forest, hundreds of houses are still threatened by two fires that continue to grow.
About a quarter of the McFarland fire contained.
New evacuation orders were issued Monday for residents near the fire monument, which was only around 3% contained.
South Fire Dixie, firefighters prevent further growth from river fire, which broke Wednesday close to the ColFAX community and destroyed 68 houses.
Smoke from burning forest fires in west US continues to flow into several parts of Colorado and Utah, where air quality in many areas is considered unhealthy.
Denver air quality increased on Sunday, but the smoke had made air there and in Salt Lake City among the worst in the world.
The California fire season was on track to go beyond last year’s season, which was the worst in the history of the country recorded recently.
Since the beginning of the year, more than 6,000 Blaze has destroyed more than 1,260 square miles (3,260 square kilometers) of land – more than tripled losses for the same period in 2020, according to state fire rates.
California’s raging forest fires were among 107 large fires that were burned in 14 states, most of the West, where the condition of historic drought had left dry and mature land for ignition.
Auxiliary plane against California fire when smoke clean
