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The fire reduced two villages to ashes.
The so-called Dixie Fire, the largest active wildfire in the United States, has recently become the third largest fire in California history. According to Saturday, the four-county blaze destroyed 180,782 acres of forest and topped a massive smuggling blaze in southern Oregon.
The Dixie fire is currently 21 percent. managed, appears on the CalFire website. It also indicates that so far three firefighters have been injured in the fire.
While the fire continued to spread, authorities said Saturday that cooler and calmer weather had allowed firefighters to take time off. Similar weather conditions are forecast for Sunday.
Five other missing persons reportedly appeared. Authorities are urging thousands of locals to evacuate, but officials sometimes face reluctance from armed residents to leave, The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.
Dixie is currently fighting over 5,000 people. firemen. The fire is so great that the rising poles of smoke are visible from space.
According to preliminary data from the investigation, the fire occurred when a tree fell on a power line owned by a private regional company, Pacific Gas & Company (PG&E). Previously, the man was blamed for a massive Camp fire that broke out in 2018 and claimed 86 lives.
At the end of July, the size of the burning areas in California compared to 2020 was more than 250 percent. higher. As a result, 2021 is considered the year of the largest fire in the history of the modern state.
Scientists say the prolonged drought caused by climate change in the western United States has burned large areas of land and caused a sharp increase in the threat of fires.
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