Greenville: California’s largest wildfire exploded again after burning for almost three weeks in remote mountains and officials warned Tuesday that hot and dry weather would increase the risk of new fires in most countries.
The fire department saved Monday in a small community of California Greenville near the Plumas National Forest when strong winds triggered Dixie’s fire, which grew to almost 400 square miles (1,036 square kilometers) throughout the country.
“Machinery, crew, and heavy equipment shifted from other regions to improve the protection of the structure and construction of direct channels when the fire moved towards Greenville,” the Forestry Protection Department and state fire, known as Cal Fire, said Tuesday morning.
The community around 1,000 people are under a mandatory evacuation order.
About 3,000 houses are threatened by flames that have destroyed 67 houses and other buildings since breaking July 14.
It’s 35% contained.
The crew argues that with dry, hot and windy conditions “and estimates of calls for the return of active fire behavior,” Cal Fire said.
Similar weather expected in southern California, where hot advisers and warnings were released for interior valleys, mountains and desert for many weeks.
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 destructive.
More than 20,000 firefighters and supporting personnel against 97 large forest fires covering 2,919 square miles (7,560 square kilometers) in 13 United States on Tuesday, said the National Fire Interagency Center.
Dry conditions and strong winds are made for the condition of hazardous fire again on Tuesday in Hawaii.
The fire department received control of the state fire 62-miles of square (160 kilometers) which forced thousands of people to evacuate over the weekend and destroy at least two houses on the big island.
About 150 miles (240 km) west of Dixie California, the McFarland fire triggered lightning remote homes along the Trinity River in the National Forest of Shasta-Trinity.
The fire is almost 25-square-mile (65-miles of square) is 5% contained Tuesday.
In South Oregon, lightning hit the dry forest of hundreds of times in a 24-hour period, turning on 50 new forest fires because the largest flame in the country caught up less than 100 miles (161 kilometers), officials said Monday.
Firefighters and aircraft attacked new fire before they could spread out of control.
There is no home that is directly threatened.
Fire Bootleg Oregon, the largest in this country is 647 square miles (1,676 square kilometers), is 84% ​​contained and not expected to be fully controlled until October 1.