Wildfire updates: Dixie Fire now largest in California; smoke enters the Sacramento Valley
Wildfire updates: Dixie Fire now largest in California; smoke enters the Sacramento Valley Sacramento Bee 3 hrs ago Amelia Davidson, The Sacramento Bee Jul. 23—As California's fire season rages on and firefighters take on multiple blazes, the Dixie Fire has become the state's largest wildfire this year to date and is driving smoke into the Sacramento Valley. The Dixie Fire is burning on the border of Butte and Plumas counties, in the burn scar of the deadly 2018 Camp Fire. It has rapidly expanded to 142,960 acres (223 square miles), growing nearly 40,000 acres since Thursd...