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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 the information is preliminary and no direct cause of either fire has been confirmed. The Dixie Fire ...

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 late Monday that it filed a report to state regulators about its possible link to the Fly Fire, which ...

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. More than 7,800 residents across Butte and Plumas counties have been ordered to evacuate as of Monday m...

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 closed parts of Lassen National Forest and Plumas National Forest, and knocked out power in parts of ...

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 said. Firefighting air tankers from other parts of California are flying fire suppression missions ov...