It's also now the third-largest wildfire in California history and is only 35% contained.
California's Dixie Fire exploded in size overnight and is now the nation's largest wildfire, officials said Friday morning.
As hot, bone-dry, gusty weather hit California on Wednesday and Thursday, the fire raged through Greenville, a Gold Rush-era Sierra Nevada community of about 1,000, incinerating much of the downtown that included wooden buildings more than a century old. "I'm not going to say total because not every structure is gone. But the town is catastrophically destroyed," Kearns said.The cause of the blaze is under investigation, but Pacific Gas & Electric has said it may have been sparked when a tree fell on one of its power lines.
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