Firefighters have made progress in the battle against wildfires covering massive areas and leaving a trail of damage in the western United States. The Park Fire in California had scorched an area greater than Los Angeles and was one of more than 100 blazes burning in the U.S. Sunday.
Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires in the western United State and Canada. In Northern California , the so-called Park Fire, the largest wildfire in California this year, has scorched an area greater than the size of Los Angeles as of Sunday.Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires in the western United State and Canada.
In California, Paradise and several other Butte County communities were under an evacuation warning Sunday. Yet the fire’s southernmost front, which is closest to Paradise, was “looking really good,” Cal Fire operations section chief Jeremy Pierce said around midday. “This fire is surprising a lot of people with its explosive growth,” he said. “It is kind of unparalleled.”Cohasset exhibited remnants of the devastation Sunday. Mailboxes and vehicles were covered with pink fire retardant dropped by aircraft. The husks of a washer and dryer set were surrounded by burned debris and a charred motorcycle was propped upright, balancing on rims after its tires apparently melted away.
“That illustrates how rapidly things can change,” Honea said. “We were all set to be able to reduce that order to get people back in there.”
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