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At 3:00 a.m. Cal Fire announced that the fire had so far burned 45,549 acres (18,433 ha); [26] this made it the largest wildfire of the year in California, surpassing the 38,664-acre (15,647 ha) Lake Fire in Southern California's Santa Barbara County. [27] During the fire's first 12 hours, it grew at a rate of 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) per hour. [4]
It was settled during the California Gold Rush in 1849 and produced a large amount of placer gold. Hard rock mines were established soon afterward and were very productive. Washington is the only settlement in the vicinity to have survived to this day. There remains today much evidence of placer gold mining, hydraulic mining, and hard-rock mining.
Climate change in California has lengthened the fire season and made it more extreme from the middle of the 20th century. [4] [5]Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California have grown more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and often poorly maintained electricity transmission and distribution lines, particularly in areas serviced by ...
A fire in Tuolumne County has prompted evacuations in the Jamestown and Sonora areas on Thursday afternoon. The blaze is burning in the area of Highway 108 and Golf Links Road, the Tuolumne County ...
As of 7:46 p.m., the fire had burned 14,148 acres and was not contained, according to the latest incident update released by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.
The growth of the Park fire amid steady winds and hot temperatures has been dramatic. It is now the 12th-largest in California history, and still "growing by leaps and bounds."
As of August 18, 2021, the state of California was facing "unprecedented fire conditions" as multiple fires including the Dixie Fire, McFarland Fire, Caldor Fire, and others, raged on. [14] The USDA Forest Service temporarily closed all of California's national forests at the end of August to mitigate the impact of potential fires. [15]
Cal Fire said the fire damaged or destroyed more than 6,800 structures. The Eaton Fire ignited hours after the Palisades Fire near a canyon in the sprawling national forest lands north of downtown ...