California
California’s largest wildfire explodes in size as fires rage across US West
California’s largest active fire has exploded in size, growing rapidly amid bone-dry fuel, and threatening thousands of homes as firefighters scramble to meet the danger.
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... [7046 chars]