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California’s Massive Park Fire Continues to Grow
By Alan Taylor,
1 day ago
An enormous wildfire—one of the largest in state history—is currently raging in northern California. Over the past five days, the Park Fire has expanded to more than 360,000 acres, and is only 12 percent contained, according to Cal Fire. Dry conditions and strong, gusty winds have driven the rapid growth of the blaze, reportedly caused by a man pushing a burning car into a ravine in the city of Chico. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate, and more than 100 structures have been destroyed so far.
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Flames consume a building as the Park Fire tears through the Cohasset community in Butte County, California, on July 25, 2024. # Noah Berger / APSmoke rises from the Park Fire near Chico, California, on July 25, 2024. # Fred Greaves / ReutersA bulldozer creates a fuel break in the wooded area along HIghway 32 on July 26, 2024, in an attempt to control the Park Fire. # Hung T. Vu / USA Today / ReutersAn animal runs through grass while fleeing flames as the Park Fire tears through the Cohasset community on July 25, 2024. # Noah Berger / APA structure is seen engulfed in flames during the Park Fire in the community of Cohasset, near Chico, California, on July 25, 2024. # Stephen Lam / San Francisco Chronicle / Hearst Newspapers / GettyAn air tanker drops retardant over an area along the west side of Highway 32, where the Park Fire had spread, on July 26, 2024. # Hung T. Vu / USA Today / ReutersA truck coated in fire retardant is seen after firefighters battled the Park Fire in Cohasset on July 26, 2024. # Fred Greaves / ReutersFirefighters stand along Highway 32 as the Park Fire burns near Jonesville, California, on July 28, 2024. # Fred Greaves / ReutersA fire engine drives past a burning highway guardrail as the Park fire continues to burn near Paynes Creek, California, on July 26, 2024. # Josh Edelson / AFP / GettyA shaft of sunlight breaks through smoke rising from the Park Fire on July 26, 2024. # Cal Fire / ABACA / ReutersStructures and vehicles burn in Chico, California, on July 25, 2024. # Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu / GettyWild turkeys walk on scorched earth near the small community of Payne Creek as the Park Fire continued to expand on July 27, 2024. # David McNew / GettyA charred motorcycle is seen in aftermath of the Park Fire, in Cohasset, California, on July 28, 2024. # Eugene Garcia / APThe ashes and debris of a property damaged by wildfire, seen in the aftermath of the Park Fire, on July 28, 2024, in Cohasset. # Eugene Garcia / APA burning structure behind scorched and melted metal left by the Park Fire, north of Chico, on July 25, 2024 # Hung T. Vu / USA Today / ReutersFirefighters watch for spot fires that could come from a backfire they are setting on the eastern front of the Park Fire, near Chico, on July 28, 2024. # David McNew / GettyThe sky glows near the Park Fire, above a hill covered in trees that burned during the 2021 Dixie Fire, in Mineral, California, on July 26, 2024. # Josh Edelson / AFP / GettyBurning power lines are seen after the Park Fire tore through Forest Ranch, California, on July 25, 2024. # Fred Greaves / ReutersA glow from the Park Fire fills the sky, seen along Cohasset Road near Chico, on July 25, 2024. # Fred Greaves / ReutersA massive pyrocumulus cloud rises above the Park Fire on July 26, 2024, near Chico. # David McNew / GettyEmbers fly from a burning tree east of the community of Payne Creek on July 27, 2024. # David McNew / GettyFire crews battle against flames as the Park Fire advances near Chico, on July 25, 2024. # Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu / GettyStructures and trees are consumed by flames as the Park Fire burns near Paynes Creek in unincorporated Tehama County, California, on July 26, 2024. # Josh Edelson / AFP / GettyFirefighters watch as flames and smoke move through a valley in the Forest Ranch area of Butte County on July 26, 2024. # Josh Edelson / AFP / GettyThe sun sets, partially obscured by smoke, seen from a burned forest east of the community of Payne Creek on July 27, 2024. # David McNew / GettyEmbers spark a spot fire as the Park Fire burns along Highway 32, near Lomo, in Butte County, California, on July 26, 2024. # Noah Berger / AP
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