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Climate Crisis: California wildfire wreaks more destruction
An enormous wildfire is continuing to rage across Northern California
A fire in Northern California has taken another 550 homes as it continues to burn nearly one month on.
The “Dixie Fire”, which broke out on July 14 in the Sierra Nevada Mountains some 160 miles northeast of Sacramento, is the second largest in states history.
Fire officials said the blaze has now become one of the most destructive they’ve ever seen.
Crews had contained only 30 percent of the blaze as of Wednesday evening.
Temperatures were expected to cross over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in coming days as a high pressure weather system bakes the Pacific Northwest.
“High pressure continues to build over the incident and will be the dominant feature with predicted thunderstorms moving in this week,”
the California Department of Forestry and Fire protection said in an incident update.
Bad weather on the way for the burning state
Thunderstorms can rake the landscape with so-called dry lightning, igniting more flames across Northern California in forests and brush left brown and parched from years of drought.
The Dixie Fire has scorched more than 500,000 acres and is being fought by nearly 10,000 fire fighters. Two of them and a civilian have been injured.
The blaze has now destroyed more than 1,000 single-family homes, along with hundreds of other structures. Flames roared through the historic mining town of Greenville last week, leaving its main street in smoldering ruins.