![]() Incident Commander Rocky Opliger said on Wednesday as the fire advanced toward Greenville, emergency responders did an incredible job rescuing community members who did not leave. "What am I telling folks at this time is that if the plume is anywhere near your direction, stay miles away from it." "The fire is not over," he said in closing. He also asked the public to give donations of new or lightly used clothing, pet supplies, bottled water, school supplies, gift cards and new toiletries to the Mormon Church for community collection. He said there were no injuries reported in Greenville though there are four people who are unaccounted for. Plumas County Sheriff Todd Johns said Thursday evening that his "heart is crushed" by the devastation in Greenville, a small California community with at least 100 homes that have been largely destroyed by the Dixie Fire.Ī lifelong resident of Greenville, Johns said at a press broadcast community meeting, "All I can tell you is, I'm sorry." "The fire was averaging about a half-mile an hour." "Yesterday we saw extreme fire growth," Matlow said Thursday. "This is looking crazy."įlames engulfed the small mountain town of Greenville Wednesday night, leveling much of the historic Main Street and scorching surrounding homes. "Single digit humidity … that’s really not good with these winds … that's bad," said Craig Clements, director of San Jose State University's Fire Weather Research Laboratory and a professor at the university. The unstoppable monster exploded Wednesday afternoon amid extreme weather conditions with winds up to 40 mph and humidity levels as low as 6%. As of Thursday, there had not been significant structure loss in the community. ![]() "We have expectations that we’ll have winds in all directions over the fire today."įlames lick at an entrance sign for Lake Almanor West as the Dixie Fire burns on Thursday, Aug. "As the cold front passes over we’re going to see very erratic wind behavior," he said. The fire was active Thursday on its north and east edge, and fire activity is expected to pick up through the day as a weather system drops down from the north and kicks up winds, said Matlow. "It has the potential for getting bad before getting better," said Mitch Matlow, a spokesperson with the multi-agency team managing the fire. There were no signs of California's Dixie Fire slowing down Thursday amid gusty winds and bone-dry conditions. PG&E has said its equipment may have started it. Nearly 5,000 personnel are fighting the blaze. Started near Cresta Dam in the Feather River Canyon on July 14, the Dixie Fire has destroyed at least 91 houses and other buildings, according to Cal Fire, and torched a bone-dry landscape and triggered thousands of evacuations in a region still recovering from the 2018 Camp Fire, California's deadliest blaze. #DixieFire /WLYLroOEK6- craig philpott August 6, 2021 Good morning Chester CA history lives on and the Olsen Barn still stands. "Good morning Chester CA history lives on and the Olsen Barn still stands," Philpott wrote. Journalist Craig Philpott shared an image Friday of a barn in Chester that remained untouched by flames. Thursday, a few structures outside the town were damaged or destroyed and only one building within the town was damaged, Mike Wink, operations section chief for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, said at an operations meeting. Preliminary reports Thursday evening indicated the community of Chester was mostly saved from flames.Īs of 7 p.m. "We have a lot of veteran firefighters who have observed for 20 years and have never seen conditions like this especially day after day. "We're seeing truly frightening fire behavior and I don't know how to overstate that," Chris Carlton, the supervisor for Plumas National Forest said in a recent briefing. It's 13 miles north of Greenville, the historic mining town that was ravaged by flames the day before. Businesses and homes were destroyed in Canyondam amid fierce winds fanning flames. Illustration: SFGATE/ Getty Imagesįlames tore through Canyondam, a hamlet with a population of about three dozen people located near the dam that forms Lake Almonor. ![]() ![]() Wildfires are burning across Northern California amid hot, bone-dry weather. The blaze located about 280 miles northeast of San Francisco remained active Thursday and overnight advancing north into Lassen National Park and pushing onto the eastern shore of Lake Almanor. ![]()
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