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LATEST: Park Fire explodes to 45,000 acres, prompts evacuations in Butte and Tehama counties. A wildfire broke out near Upper Bidwell Park in Chico on Wednesday afternoon and grew rapidly to about ...
Cal Fire reported the Park Fire had destroyed 109 structures and damaged five others since the wildfire started Wednesday afternoon in Upper Bidwell Park near Chico. The fire was still threatening ...
The fire broke out around 2:45 p.m. Wednesday and was growing at a “moderate pace,” according to Cal Fire. Evacuations ordered as fire threatens structures near Chico’s Bidwell Park ...
The Park Fire is an active wildfire burning in Butte and Tehama counties in Northern California. [ 1] The fire ignited on July 24, allegedly due to arson, in Upper Bidwell Park adjacent to the city of Chico in Butte County. The fire defied initial suppression efforts and grew rapidly over the following days, burning into the Lassen foothills ...
Smoke from the Park fire in Butte County shrouds trees in Upper Bidwell Park, northeast of Chico. (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection) Cal Fire listed the fire at 71,489 acres ...
Bidwell Park is a municipal park located in Chico, California. The park was established July 10, 1905, through the donation by Annie Bidwell, widow of Chico's founder, John Bidwell, of approximately 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of land to the City of Chico. Since that time, the city has purchased additional land, such as Cedar Grove in 1922 ...
Hooker Oak. / 39.738333; -121.825278. Hooker Oak was an extremely large valley oak tree ( Quercus lobata) in Chico, California. Amateur botanist and local socialite Annie Bidwell, whose husband had founded Chico, named the tree in 1887 after English botanist and Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.
The sun rises as seen through smoke from the Park Fire as seen from Cohasset Road east of Chico on Thursday, July 25, 2024. (Hector Amezcua/hamezcua@sacbee.com) In less than three days, the Park ...