Greenville: After four years of homeless, because Studebaker thought he finally landed on his feet when he found a cooking job at the restaurant and moved to a house in Greenville Small Community.
He had rented for three months and hoped that stability would help his victory from his 14-year-old daughter.
But only one night, a raging fire tore the city of mountains and “took everything,” he said.
Driven by strong winds and bone dry vegetation, Dixie fire grew into the largest forest fires in the history of the country.
People live in a beautiful forest in North California facing a weekend of fear because it threatened to reduce thousands of houses to ashes.
“We know we don’t get enough rainfall and fires, but we don’t expect monsters like this.” Said Studebaker on Saturday.
The fire burned a lot of Greenville on Wednesday and Thursday, destroyed 370 houses and structures and threatened nearly 14,000 buildings in the North Sierra Nevada.
It has swallowed a larger area of ​​the size of New York City.
Dixie fire.
, named for the road where it starts, unfurling an area of ​​700 square miles (1,813 square kilometers) Saturday night and only 21% contained, according to the Forestry Protection Department and California fire.
Four firefighters were aken to the hospital Friday after being beaten by the falling branch.
More than 20 people were initially reported missing, but on Saturday afternoon the authorities had contacted all but five of them.
The cause of the fire is being investigated.
The Pacific gas & electricity utility says it might have been triggered when the tree falls on one of its electrical channels.
A federal judge ordered PG & E on Friday to provide details about the equipment and vegetation where the fire began on August 16.
A cooler overnight temperature and higher humidity slows the spread of fire and the temperature reaches 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius) instead of Triple-digit height recorded earlier in a week.
But the flames and neighboring fires, within a few hundred miles each other, pose a sustainable threat.
Studebaker looked for protection at the evacuation center before setting up his tent on the front page of a friend.
He relying back to his job if the restaurant where he works remains open.
The boss was also evacuated when the city of Chester, northwest of Greenville, lost strength and smoke was so thick that it made it difficult to breathe.
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.
Near Klamath National Forest, firefighters continued to keep an eye on the small community ordered evacuated on the antelope fire, which had previously threw 100 feet (30 meters) because of blacken dry grass, brush and wood.
It’s only 20% contained.
Further northwest, around 500 houses spread across and around Shasta-Trinity National Forest are still threatened by a monument shot and the other by McFarland Fire, both of them started with lightning storms last week, said fire officials.
About two hours away from The Dixie Fire, the crew had surrounded almost half of the river fire which broke on Wednesday near the city of Colfax and destroyed 68 houses and other buildings.
Evacuation orders for thousands of people in Nevada and County Placer were appointed Friday.
Three people, including firefighters, were injured, said the authorities.
Smoke from the fire of northern California and West Nevada blankets, causing air quality to deteriorate to very unhealthy and, sometimes, dangerous levels.
Air quality advances extends through the San Joaquin California valley and as far as the San Francisco Bay region to Denver, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, where residents are encouraged to keep their windows and doors closed.
Denver air quality is ranked among the worst in the world Saturday afternoon.
The California fire season is on track to go beyond last year’s season, which is the worst fire season in the history of the country 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.