GREENVILLE, CALIF.
The Dixie Fire, swollen by bone-dry vegetation and 40 mph gusts, raged through the northern Sierra Nevada community of Greenville on Wednesday.
The fire “burnt down our entire downtown.
Margaret Elysia Garcia, an artist and writer who has been in Southern California waiting out the fire, watched video of her Greenville office in flames.
Firefighters had to deal with people reluctant to leave on Wednesday.
The blaze that broke out July 14 is the largest burning in California and had blackened over 504 square miles , an area larger than Los Angeles.
Ken Donnell left Greenville on Wednesday, thinking he’d be right back after a quick errand a few towns over, but couldn’t return as the flames swept through.
By Thursday, the Dixie Fire had become the sixth largest in state history, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.
An air tanker makes a retardant drop over a flank of the River Fire Wednesday, Aug.