On Thursday, Evacuation orders were widened as California’s biggest wildfire raged through the state’s tinder-dry landscape , laying waste to hundreds of square miles.
The Dixie fire is already the sixth biggest in the state’s history, and was still spreading due to gusting winds and record-low humidity.
This week it all-wiped out the historic mining town of Greenville, a settlement of a few hundred people dating back to the mid-1800s Gold Rush.
The Dixie Fire– just one of a welter of blazes wracking the western United states– has been raging in the dry forests of northern california since mid-july, part of a global warming climate crisis that has brought sweltering heat and an alarming drought to the region.
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