Paradise (California), July 30 (AP) The biggest wildfire ever this year broke out in California on Friday, but as flames chewed through unincorporated islands of vegetation within the perimeter created by firefighters It was, the officials said.
The Dixie Fire covered 376 square miles (974 square kilometers) in the mountains of Northern California where 42 homes and other buildings have been destroyed and more than 10,000 are still at risk.
The burning vegetation inside the fire on Thursday generated a huge “cloud of fire,” high columns of smoke and ash that could pose a danger to firefighters. Residents were assured that this was expected and would happen again but this did not mean that the crew were losing control of the fire they had.
“Nothing is close to our line right now. It’s burning all the internal fuel,” Mike Wink, an incident commander, said at an online briefing.
The fire northeast of Paradise City, which in 2018 was largely destroyed by the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, has been burning since July 13 and is more than 20% contained.
In far southern Oregon, the nation’s largest wildfire was more than halfway through in the Fremont-Winema National Forest after scorching more than 646 square miles (1,673 square kilometers). A status report stated that the active fire behavior was also mainly internal pockets of burning vegetation.
A historic drought and recent climate change-linked heat waves have made it harder to fight wildfires in the American West. Scientists say climate change has made the region hotter and drier over the past 30 years and will make the weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
The US Drought Monitor reported this week that a strong monsoon has provided drought-free rainfall in the Southwest, while severely dry conditions remain in Northern California and the Northwest, where “extraordinary droughts” have extended , which is the worst category.
About 22,000 firefighters and aid workers were battling 83 large, active wildfires spread over 2,720 square miles (7,044 square kilometers) in 13 states on Friday, the National Interagency Fire Center said.
“Fire weather and fuel conditions across the country are challenging wildfire managers,” the agency said in a statement. (AP) AIIMS AIIMS
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