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'California's largest active fire exploded in size on Friday evening, growing
rapidly amid bone-dry fuel and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters
scrambled to meet the danger.
The Park Fire's intensity and dramatic spread led fire officials to make
unwelcome comparisons to the monstrous Camp Fire, which burned out of control
in nearby Paradise in 2018, killing 85 people and torching 11,000 homes.
More than 130 structures have been destroyed by this fire so far, and thousands
more are threatened as evacuations were ordered in four counties: Butte,
Plumas, Tehama and Shasta. It stood at 480 square miles (1,243 square
kilometers) on Friday night and was moving quickly north and east after
igniting Wednesday when authorities said a man pushed a burning car into a
gully in Chico and then calmly blended in with others fleeing the scene.
"There's a tremendous amount of fuel out there and it's going to continue with
this rapid pace," Cal Fire incident commander Billy See said at a briefing. He
said the fire was advancing up to 8 square miles (21 square kilometers) an hour
on Friday afternoon.'
Via Kenny Chaffin.
Cheers,
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