Posted on 07/29/2021 9:59:27 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The Dixie Fire expanded by around 4,000 acres in the 24 hours headed into Thursday morning, marking a relatively slow day of growth for the blaze. In its Thursday morning incident report, the state fire agency said the fire encompassed 221,504 acres (346 square miles) and remained 23% contained.
Over 5,900 firefighters are battling the blaze, which ignited July 14 above the Cresta Dam in Feather River Canyon, in the burn scar of the deadly 2018 Camp Creek fire. The fire is California’s largest so far this season, and is now California’s 13th-largest of all time by acreage.
According to Cal Fire’s Thursday incident report, the Dixie Fire has destroyed 64 structures so far. The Associated Press reported that 36 of those structures were in the Plumas County town of Indian Falls, population 53. The town was all but destroyed by the fire.
Over 10,720 structures were threatened by the fire as of Thursday morning.
The blaze has generated large amounts of smoke. Northerly winds pushed smoke into the Sacramento Valley Wednesday, creating hazy and smoky conditions across the capital region and causing Sacramento County to issue an air quality alert.
Air quality monitors from the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Pollution Control District registered an AQI reading of 172 downtown just after noon, and a reading of 177 in Arden Arcade around 1 p.m.
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Is it ok to call it the Dixie fire? Isn’t that white oppression?
BEAT me to it! I was thinking the same thing.
Dunno, but it has unquestionably sickened people here in Nevada.
My first thought too, when I read the title.
I want a sign that says: “California is known to cause cancer in the state of Nevada.”
They name them for the nearest landform of interest around the place were it started. That makes fire names pretty random.
The East Coast and South have hazy skies from the Western fires for over a week now.
That would go a long way toward helping even Commiefornia quit putting their "valuable undergrowth" over the lives of their own people.
I can’t believe California has anything left to burn! Isn’t it all ashes by now?
“ought to sue California over their forestry mismanagement”
Mother Nature will manage its forests with or without human activity. Sometimes Mother Nature’s forestry management also manages manages human activity.
cal fire and the usdof are just letting them burn, unless near towns.
The fire was named for a close landmark, Dixie Road. Dixie Road was named for a well known Native American from that area, Dixie Johnson (born 1875, died 1949). We can only speculate how Dixie would feel about having his name attached to a monster wildfire.
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