Dixie Fire Second Largest In California History
August 14, 2021 at 7:40 am
Dixie Fire Grows To 540,581 Acres; Number Of Homes Destroyed Nearing 600
BUTTE COUNTY (AP/CBS13) — The latest on the Dixie Fire impacting Butte, Plumas, and Lassen counties:
A month-old wildfire burning through forestlands in Northern California lurched toward a small lumber town as blazes across the U.S. Western states strained resources and threatened thousands of homes with destruction. More than 6,000 firefighters alone were battling the Dixie Fire, which has destroyed more than 1,000 homes, businesses and other structures.
As of Saturday morning, it is 540,581 acres with 31 percent contained.
Crews were cutting back brush and using bulldozers to build lines to keep the Dixie Fire from reaching Westwood east of Lake Almanor, not far from where the lightning-caused blaze destroyed much of the town of Greenville last week.
Previous day’s updates below:
7:50 p.m.
More mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in Plumas County as the Dixie Fire rages on.
According to the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office, the order applies to all of the Genesee Valley, southeast of Taylorsville up Genesee Road to just south of Babcock Crossing, Walker Mine Road, and the north portion of Beckwourth Genesee Road.
An evacuation shelter is set up in Quincy at Springs of Hope Church at 59 Bell Ln.
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/08/14/dixie-fire-2nd-largest-in-ca-history-updates/