Greenville: Evacuation orders widen Thursday as California’s biggest fire raged through a dry dry landscape of the country, putting waste to hundreds of square miles (kilometers).
The Dixie Fire has become the sixth largest in the history of the country, and is still spreading thanks to strong winds and low-record moisture.
This week it all – but wiped Greenville’s historic mining city, a settlement of several hundred people returned to the mid 1800 Gold Rush.
“I would say the majority of downtown Greenville is completely destroyed,” Tweeted Wildfire Photographer Stuart Palley, sharing images from destruction.
“My heart was destroyed for this beautiful little town.” The Dixie Fire – Only one of the Welter of Blazes becomes the United States of West – has raged in the northern California Dry Forest since mid-July, part of the global warming climate crisis that has brought disgusting heat and worrying drought.
to the region.
Now it has swallowed around 500 square miles (1,300 square kilometers).
Almost a fifth of the area added last Wednesday to Thursday.
Blaze is very large so it has produced its own weather system.
“We did everything we could,” said California Fire Department spokesman Mitch Matlow told reporters.
“Sometimes it’s not enough.” The picture taken by a AFP photographer in Greenville shows the fire of fire has a crooked street light to the ground, with only a few structures that are still standing.
A gas station, a hotel and a bar was destroyed, as well as many buildings over one century.
The fire swept the city on Wednesday afternoon, where the impact was destroyed, said Jake Cagle, head of the negotiating management team operation.
He said firefighters struggled with those who did not obey the evacuation order, which led to they had to divert time and resources to save people on the fire, even when they tried to handle the extraordinary Blaze.
“We have firefighters who get weapons pulled out on them, because people don’t want to evacuate,” he said Thursday.
“It’s a very difficult day for all our resources – there are things out there that we don’t want to see,” said Cagle.
Nearly 5,000 personnel were involved in the battle to tame the fire.
But very low moisture and dry landscapes offer ideal conditions for anger.
The control line founded by firefighters was violated overnight, with the fire grew “explosive” in places, according to the incident commander.
The authorities issued an evacuation order again on Thursday, told the residents of Taylorsville and Westwood cities they needed to escape.
At the end of July, the number of hectares burned in California rose more than 250 percent from 2020 – itself the worst year of forest fires in the modern history of the country.
The Dixie Fire has raised a painful memory of Paradise fires, the deadliest fire in the history of California.
The damaged power line triggered Inferno, which swept in the city of North Paradise in 2018, killing 86 people.
Pacific Gas and Electric, California’s largest energy utility company, is considered responsible.
The PG & E equipment was blamed again due to Dixie’s fire, after the tree fell on the power conductor on the day of the fire it began.
The utility announced at the end of July will bury 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) of electrical lines in a massive effort to prevent equipment from triggering a more deadly forest fires.
Greenville himself is no stranger to a fire disaster.
The convenience of disaster destroyed most of the city in 1881, and some large inferno had threatened residents in 140-year intervention.