Authorities say a Northern California wildfire that has tripled in size in one day was started by a man who pushed a burning car into a gully. Officials say they have arrested a 42-year-old man who will be arraigned Monday. The Park Fire had burned more than 250 square miles near the city of Chico by early Friday.
A burning car pushed into a gully sparked California ’s largest wildfire of the year, authorities said Thursday as they announced the arrest of a suspect. Flames from the fire the man is accused of starting exploded into what is now the Park Fire, which has burned more than 195 square miles near the city of Chico .A burning car pushed into a gully sparked California ’s largest wildfire of the year, authorities said Thursday as they announced the arrest of a suspect.
Evacuations were ordered in Butte and Tehama counties, with the blaze only 3% contained by Friday morning. About 4,000 residents in unincorporated areas of Butte County and 400 residents of Chico were ordered to evacuate, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said at a news conference late Thursday.
There have been no reports of structural damage, deaths or serious injuries, but the fires were at zero containment Thursday amid gusty winds that were also plaguing crews working the Park Fire, authorities said. Evacuation orders were lifted for the eastern Oregon city of Huntington, population 500, after a thunderstorm late Wednesday brought some rain and cooler temperatures to the nearly 630 square miles burned by the Durkee Fire, the nation’s biggest, and another nearby blaze.
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