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. on Monday.
By Nic Coury and Rebecca Boone, Associated PressA firefighter lays out a hose line while fighting the Park Fire near Forest Ranch, Calif., Sunday, July 28, 2024.
The Park Fire had scorched an area greater than the city of Los Angeles as of Monday, destroying more than 100 structures and threatening 4,200 more. The blaze spanned more than 575 square miles of inland Northern California on Monday, according to CAL Fire. Although cooler-than-average temperatures are expected through the middle of this week, that doesn’t mean existing fires will disappear, said Marc Chenard, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
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. “This fire is surprising a lot of people with its explosive growth,” he said. “It is kind of unparalleled.”
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