#DIXIE FIRE TODAY WINDOWS#
Smoke from the fires blanketed central California and western Nevada, causing air quality to deteriorate to very unhealthy levels and, in some areas, the worst levels in the world as measured by World Air Quality Index, especially in Plumas county, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.Īir quality advisories extended through the San Joaquin Valley and as far west as the San Francisco Bay Area, where residents were urged to keep their windows and doors shut. Scientists say climate breakdown has made the region much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. Photograph: Peter DaSilva/UPI/REX/Shutterstock The burned-out remains of a gas station along Main Street in downtown Greenville. Her home was still standing on Friday but her fate was bound with the direction of the wind and she wasn’t alone. It’s just her, a miniature pinscher chihuahua named Jedidiah and a pit bull named Bear. Her husband stayed behind to maintain some water tanks firefighters were using. Since then, Mays has been living in the parking lot of Lassen College in Susanville. Chunks of ash broke apart as they hit the ground, making a sound like broken glass. The smoke was so thick it was hard to breathe. But when the small town on the north-west shore of Lake Almanor lost power two days ago, Mays decided it was time for her to leave. The fire reached Chester but crews managed to protect homes and businesses there, officials said.Ĭharlene Mays kept her gas station in Chester open as long as she could, telling weary firefighters not to apologize for the trail of ash their boots left on the floor. Wind-driven flames destroyed dozens of homes and most of Greenville’s downtown on Wednesday and Thursday, and also heavily damaged Canyondam, a hamlet with a population of about three dozen people.
#FirePowerMoney /4Q8s8GeV5M- Brandon Rittiman August 7, 2021 He asks about the tree that fell on PG&E's power line at the Dixie origin point- demands inspection images showing what it looked like before it fell. NEW: federal probation judge, William Alsup, demands answers on the #DixieFire and #FlyFire.
On Friday, the US district judge William Alsup issued an order demanding information from PG&E on a tree that fell on a power line at the point of ignition. Investigators are still trying to pinpoint the cause of the fire. Meanwhile, a federal judge has ordered the California utility Pacific Gas & Electric to “explain its role” in the Dixie fire’s combustion, according to a number of news reports on Saturday. It allows a higher humidity, which helps us,” Zuniga said. There are favorable weather conditions, with less wind and a blanket of smoke that blocks direct sunlight. In the first reported injuries of the Dixie blaze, four firefighters were taken to the hospital on Friday after being struck by a fallen branch, a California department of forestry and fire protection firefighter and spokesman, Edwin Zuniga, said. Dixie, named for the road where it started, spanned an area of 698 sq miles as of early Saturday evening, the largest current wildfire in the nation covering the largest area in recorded state history, and was less than a quarter contained.
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