Susanville: Firefighters face a more dangerous weather on Tuesday because they struggle to keep the nation’s largest forest fires start moving towards the seat of North California and other small mountain communities.
The forecasters issued with the warning of red flags from critical fire weather conditions include gusts of up to 40 mph (64 kph) from morning to midnight.
The wind spawned by the new weather system arrived on Monday afternoon and pushed Dixie’s fire within a few miles from Susanville, a population of around 18,000, and encouraged an evacuation order for the nearest mountain community of Janesville, the fire official said.
“The fire moved quickly last night,” said Fire spokesman David Janssen Tuesday morning.
Susanville is the Lassen County chair and the biggest city flown by Dixie, named for the road where it starts, has approached since it broke out last month.
Former Logging and Mining City Sierra Nevada has two state prisons, federal locking and nearest casinos.
Ash fell from the advanced fire and the statement of the police department urged residents “to be vigilant and prepared to displaced” if the fire threatens the city, even though there is no formal evacuation warning issued.
The bulldozers have cut fire lines on the flames path to the north.
“We really have our fire line challenged,” Janssen said.
“It’s a very large fire.
It’s very difficult to add perimeter.” Weather Forecast Encourages Pacific & Electric Gas to warn that it might reduce power to 48,000 customers in the portion of 18 California countries from Tuesday night to Wednesday afternoon to prevent the wind from breaking up or triggering new forest fires.
Most of these customers are in Butte and Shasta, who have seen a number of deadly and destroyed forest fires in recent years, including Fire Dixie.
The Dixie fire has scorched more than 900 square miles (2,331 square kilometers) in the North Sierra Nevada and South Kaskade since it was turned on on July 13 and finally joined a smaller flame called Fly Fire.
This is less than the third contained.
The investigation continues, but PG & E has notified the utility regulator that Dixie and Fly Fires may be caused by trees that fall into the power tract.
The Dixie Fire began to approach the city of Paradise, which was destroyed by the 2018 Wildfire which was turned on by PG & E equipment during strong winds.
Eighty-five people died.
The ongoing damage survey has calculated more than 1,100 buildings destroyed, including 627 houses, and more than 14,000 structures remained threatened.
Many evacuation orders apply.
Westwood small wood is still under the evacuation order and protective line holding but the flames remain a threat.
California deals with several other major fires, including one called the Caldor API which began on Southeast Saturday from Fire Dixie in El Dorado Regency which has grown by around 10 square miles (26 square kilometers).
About 2,500 people were under the command of the evacuation and warning because of the Caldor fire, which had almost tripled overnight, Chris Vestal said, a fire spokesman.
The Dixie Fire is the largest of nearly 100 main forest fires that burned above more than a dozen western countries that have seen historical droughts and high-temperature weeks and dry weather that have left trees, brushes and flammable meadows.
Two dozen fire caught fire in Montana and almost 50 more in Idaho, Washington and Oregon, according to the National Fire Interagency Center.
In Montana, a fire near the Hays small community that began on Monday has burned about 8 square miles (20 square kilometers) and residents inside and around the small bag Zortman said to be possible for evacuation.
USAITT services said last week that he operated in crisis mode, with more than double the number of firefighters deployed than at the same time last year.
More than 25,000 firefighters, supporting personnel and management team were assigned to us Blazes.
Climate change has made AS West Warmer and dryers in the past 30 years and will continue to make more extreme weather and forest fires is more destructive, according to scientists.