California's largest wildfire spreads threatening thousands of homes
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Published 2024-07-27
More than 130 homes have already been destroyed by the Park Fire, the state's largest wildfire of the year so far, which covered 480sq miles (1,243sq km) on Friday evening.
It started in Butte County on Wednesday and has been moving quickly north and eastwards since then. A 42-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the fire over reports he pushed a burning car into a gully in Chico before fleeing the scene.
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All Comments (21)
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This guy needs to be put in prison and work for his food & drink! 😡😡😡
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God, help the firefighters and all the people! 😢
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The poison oak up there is BRUTAL I pray for the firefighters!
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I live in Magalia, Ca. God Bless our Firefighters.
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It made an eight mile run, jumped a prepared control line at Hwy 36, at midnight it was measured at over 300,000 acres, a sizeable increase from 240,000 measured at 7pm.
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Hope there is no loss of life
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To put it in perspective it is 3 times the size of the city of Sacramento four times the size of the city of San Francisco
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Very sad, and California is already in miserable debt as it is, God help the Family.
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It was the Camp fire in 2018.
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In Oregon one year, business for the forest fires was slow, so a firewoman started setting fires herself …
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Please send prayers for my family, they are evacuated and hopefully they have a home after.
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Ironically this is indicative of what Socialists (like Gov. Nuisance) has done to California
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We really should just ban everyone from these hot, dry places
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Question?? How can the USA fight wars when they have no knowledge how to put out fires???? WHERE IS ALL THE MONEY GOING??????
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this is why i left ca and moved to a very wet and rainy state so i dont have to deal with the yearly fires
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Im surprised that Sky didnt try and sell this as "climate change"
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hope that guy gets prison
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Fire, evil on his land
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Horrible
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Dont fight fires ..get out the bloody way..
