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Cal Fire’s Butte unit said in initial social media posts Monday evening that the fire, first reported at 30 acres, was burning with a “dangerous rate of spread.” The fire within two hours ...
Dozens of structures have been ordered to evacuate as the Apache Fire burns with a “dangerous” rate of spread, Cal Fire officials said. Evacuations ordered as 600-acre-plus wildfire burns in ...
The Park Fire in Butte and Tehama counties is currently the largest of California's active fires and the state's seventh largest wildfire on record. It has burned over 360,000 acres with only 12% ...
The man, who was identified Thursday only as a 42-year-old Chico resident, was seen around 3 p.m. Wednesday pushing the car about 60 feet down an embankment in the city's Bidwell Park, where it ...
The Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine disaster of June 8, 1917, occurred as a result of a fire in a copper mine, and was the most deadly event in underground hard rock mining in United States history. Most men died of suffocation underground as the fire consumed their oxygen; a total of 168 miners were killed.
The Park fire in Butte County — the largest blaze in California this year — exploded to more than 239,000 acres by Friday evening, with its rapid spread destroying scores of buildings and ...
Silver Bow Creek/Butte: Silver Bow: Groundwater, surface water and soil are contaminated with arsenic, copper, zinc, cadmium, and lead from mining and smelting. Silver Bow Creek and the Clark Fork River contain metals from the cities of Butte to Milltown. Mine tailings in the creek and river have caused fish kills in the river. [24] 12/30/1982
Right-of-way begins in Butte and travels to Anaconda, generally along the course of Silver Bow Creek; also the confluence of German Gulch and Silver Bow Creeks at the eastern end of Silver Bow Canyon 46°02′37″N 112°44′25″W / 46.043611°N 112.740278°W / 46.043611; -112.740278 ( Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Historic