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By Jensen Rader, iHeartMedia Aug 3, 2021 PG&E says their lines have sparked another Northern California wildfire. In a regulatory filing, the utility says a tree fell onto one of its overhead lines on July 22nd along Highway 70 in Plumas County, about the time the Fly Fire started North of the town of Quincy. The Fly Fire grew to about 4,000 acres before merging with the larger Dixie Fire, which also may have been caused by a tree hitting a PG&E line 8 days earlier. However, the utility says t...

PG&E power line may have started the Fly Fire that merged with big Dixie Fire FacebookTwitterEmail A home burns as flames from the Dixie fire tear through the Indian Falls neighborhood of unincorporated Plumas County, California on Saturday, July 24, 2021. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)JOSH EDELSON/AFP / TNS A smaller wildfire that became part of the huge Dixie Fire now burning in the Sierra Nevada may have started when a tree fell on a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power line. PG&E said la...

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN When Jessica Roberts heard that a fire ignited roughly four miles from where the Camp Fire started in 2018, she was catapulted back to the most traumatic experience of her life. The Dixie Fire is California’s largest active wildfire, having burned more than 240,000 acres of land — an area larger than New York City — over the course of two weeks. Its size jumped significantly last weekend when it merged with the Fly Fire in the Lassen and Plumas national forests. Mor...

View Comments Note to readers: We’ve made this story free as an important public service. If you are able, help power local journalism. Subscribe to your local newspaper for as little as $1. The Dixie Fire continues to burn in Plumas and Butte counties, and areas of Lassen and Tehama counties. The fire was sparked around 5:15 p.m. July 13 in the Lassen National Forest. A number of residents in Butte, Plumas and Tehama counties are under evacuation orders and warnings. The blaze has c...

View Comments Note to readers: We’ve made this story free as an important public service. If you are able, help power local journalism. Subscribe to your local newspaper for as little as $1. The Dixie Fire, burning south of Lake Almanor, grew to 212,799 acres as of Tuesday evening. As of Tuesday evening, the fire destroyed 53 structures and damaged another seven. More than 10,700 structures are still threatened. More than 5,300 firefighting personnel are working on the fire, Cal Fire sai...

View Comments Note to readers: We’ve made this story free as an important public service. If you are able, help power local journalism. Subscribe to your local newspaper for as little as $1. Firefighters are battling the Dixie Fire, burning in Plumas and Butte counties, and threatening areas of Lassen and Tehama counties. The fire was sparked around 5:15 p.m. July 13 in the Lassen National Forest and has prompted evacuations in Butte, Plumas and Tehama counties. The fire also closed part...

Whipped Up By Winds, Dixie Fire Continues Destroying Buildings In Indian Falls The Dixie Fire, which despite its massive burn scar has so far been mostly burning through uninhabited forest in Butte and Plumas counties, continues raging in the area of Indian Falls, and the full extent of the damage wont be clear for a day or two. As of Sunday, the Dixie Fire had become the largest fire burning in California and had moved into small mountain community of Indian Falls — a census-designated-place...

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It was 53% contained after scorching 409,000 acres.  On Monday, an additional crew of Oregon National Guardsmen were sent to help out the more than 2,200 people battling the blaze. The lightning-caused fire has burned at least 70 homes, mainly cabins, and some 2,000 residences were under evacuation orders. In northeast Oregon, the Elbow Creek Fire had reached 22,681 acres as of Monday with containment at 32%. In Northern California, erratic winds and the potential for dry lightning added to ...

Winds stoke California’s largest fire as blazes scorch West 26/07/2021, 9:24 pm A firefighter passes a burning home as the Dixie Fire flares in Plumas County, Calif., Saturday, July 24, 2021. The fire destroyed multiple residences as it tore through the Indian Falls community. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Erratic winds and the potential for dry lightning have added to the challenges facing firefighters battling California’s largest wildfire, one of numerous blazes burning across the US West. Ov...