Greenville, California: Forest fires driven by the wind through the city of Northern California, leaving many downtown with ash when the crew prepared to run another flame in the midst of dangerous weather.
Fire Dixie, swollen with bone dry vegetation and gusts 40 mph (64 kilometers), went berserk in the city of Greenville Sierra Nevada North on Wednesday night.
A gas station, the hotel and bar are among many severe structures in the city, which comes from the Gold Rush California era and has several buildings more than a century.
“We do everything we can,” said spokesman for Mitch Matlow.
“Sometimes it’s not enough.” When the north and east side of fire exploded, the Sheriff County Plumas office issued a Facebook post to warn this city around 800 residents: “You are in danger immediately and you have to leave now!” The 3-week-old Blaze is the largest fire of the state and has blackened more than 435 square miles (1,127 square kilometers), burning dozens of houses before running it.
At the beginning of this week, around 5,000 firefighters had made progress on the flames, saving some threatened houses, bulldozing vegetation bags that were not burned and managing to surround a third of the perimeter.
More firefighting machines and bulldozers are being ordered to increase the fight, Matlow said.
On Wednesday, the fire grew thousands of hectares and an additional 4,000 people were ordered to evacuate, bringing nearly 26,500 people in several districts in the evacuation order, he said.
Weather conditions with red flag with high heat, low humidity and afternoon wind and night wind erupt Wednesday and are expected to be a sustainable threat until Thursday night.
Trees, grass, and brushes are very dry so “if the land of the coal, you are almost guaranteed to start a new fire,” Matlow said.
Blaze walked parallel to the canyon area that functions as a chimney, making it so hot so that it creates a very large pyroxumulus column of smoke.
This cloud carries a chaotic wind, makes the “critical erratic” fire so it is difficult to predict the direction direction, he added.
Dawn Garofalo escaped with dogs and two horses from the property of Greenville’s close friends, and watched the clouds that jumped from the west side of Lake Almanor.
“There is only one entrance and one way out,” he said.
“I don’t want to get stuck there if the fire comes.” From the campsite on a dry lake bed, he watched the fire shining on the horizon before dawn.
In the south, Cal Fire said between 35 and 40 houses and other structures burned in a fast-moving river fire which broke Wednesday near Colfax, and within a few hours swelled to more than 2 square miles (5 square kilometers).
There is no detention and thousands of people under the evacuation order in Placer and County Nevada.
And about 150 miles (240 kilometers) to the west of Dixie’s fire, the McFarland fire triggered lightning remote houses along the Trinity River in the National Forest of Shasta-Trinity.
The fire was only 5% contained after burning nearly 25 square miles (65 square kilometers) from rusty vegetation.
Similar risk weather is expected in southern California, where heat advisers and warnings are issued for interior valleys, mountains and desert for a week.
Heat waves and historical droughts are bound to climate change has made fires more difficult to fight in the 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, said Center Fire Fire National.