wildfire in state history amid high temperatures and strong winds.... Mitch Matlow, spokesperson of

An additional$ 357, 000 was spent on fencing that remained up for weeks after the encampments were cleared, the city said, to allow turf to recover.... That’s not far off the 60-odd people displaced by the raids, he said.“ The same price for the security and the policing and staffing could have actually provided stable housing to virtually everyone in the encampments, ” Mr.... Tory and city officials have defended the raids, saying they came after months of efforts by outreach workers to convi

A gas station, church, hotel, museum and bar were among the fixtures gutted in the town dating back to California's gold rush era where some wooden buildings were more than 100 years old. The fire “ burnt down our entire downtown.... ” A similar warning was issued Thursday as flames pushed toward the southeast in the direction of another tiny mountain community, Taylorsville, about 10 miles( 16 kilometers) southeast of Greenville.To the northwest, crews were protecting homes in the town of Ches

Homes and cars destroyed by the Dixie Fire line central Greenville on Aug.... " This fire is so intense that I think we're learning as a community, as a region, that this is not a normal fire.... It's a beast," said Douthit, who is the trust's executive director....

THE catastrophic Dixie Fire has become the largest wildfire burning in the US as residents defy evacuation and defend their homes at gunpoint.In tense stand-offs, gun-toting Californians are ordering cops to" get off my property", says a report.... But the smoke was so thick that she struggled to breathe. Mays has spent the past few days sheltering in the parking lot of Lassen College in Susanville.... However, evacuations for thousands of people in Nevada and Placer counties were lifted Frida