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BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. — The nomads of Butte County must hide or keep moving — scope out...

Gov. Newsom’s Wildfire 'Priority Project' Didn’t Contain The Lava Fire, Leaving Evacuees Stuck in Traffic The Lava Fire outside Weed, Calif. Thursday, July 1, 2021. Andrew Nixon / CapRadio The order to leave came in the early afternoon. April Williams was asleep when she heard a bang, bang, bang on her door. The 27-year-old, part-time childcare worker lifted her head and peaked out the window of her home, nestled among single-story ranch-style houses and ponderosa pine trees in Lake Shastina, a small town in the shadow of Mount Shasta near the Oregon border.  The sky was red and full of ...

The most telltale number is 4.2 million. That’s the stop-in-your-tracks figure — the total acreage burned — from last year’s fire siege, the worst year in California’s long history of wildfires. 2020 was a fire year of unforgettable and awful superlatives. In the new world of mega-fires, a series of wildfires exploded late in August with a barrage of lightning and fires that blazed for four months.  The 4.2 million acres burned last year is equivalent to the entire area of Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties combined. The state’s first gig...

California’s 2020 fire siege: Wildfires by the numbers JULIE CART The most telltale number is 4.2 million. That’s the stop-in-your-tracks figure — the total acreage burned — from last year’s fire siege, the worst year in California’s long history of wildfires. 2020 was a fire year of unforgettable and awful superlatives. In the new world of mega-fires, a series of wildfires exploded late in August with a barrage of lightning and fires that blazed for four months.  The 4.2 million acres burned last year is equivalent to the entire area of Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Clara and Santa...

The Forest Service said the area of Feather Falls will take several years to repair and restore as the burned area is dangerous to enter.