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Photos: California’s biggest wildfire of 2024 rages through Chico
Only three weeks after the Thompson fire rapidly tore through nearly 3,800 acres on the northern edge of Oroville, Northern California’s Butte County is contending with the far larger Park fire, which had torched 178,000 acres as of Friday afternoon. California’s largest fire of the year has expanded into...
Oroville residents recount narrow escape from devastating Thompson fire
OROVILLE, Calif. — Some people are calling themselves lucky after surviving multiple close calls in the Thompson Fire near Oroville earlier this month. Dozens of homes destroyed, damaged and left unlivable after multiple devastating fires sparked just days apart in Oroville and surrounding Butte County communities. "We had kind...
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