A tanker plane that disappeared in eastern Oregon while fighting one of the many wildfires has been found.
A burning car pushed into a gully sparked California’s largest wildfire of the year, authorities said Thursday as they announced the arrest of a suspect. Flames from the fire the man is accused of starting exploded into what is now the Park Fire, which has burned more than 195 square miles near the city of Chico.
Climate change is increasing the frequency of lightning strikes as the region endures recording-breaking heat and bone-dry conditions. More than 110 active fires covering 2,800 square miles were burning in the U.S. on Friday, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.In California, more than 130 structures have been destroyed and thousands more remain threatened by the state’s largest active wildfire.
The Park Fire was burning to the northwest of Paradise, the Butte County community where in 2018 the notorious Camp Fire killed 85 people and incinerated thousands of homes, becoming California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said he wanted “to express regret and frustration by the fact that we are here once again.”
“This a rough one, this sequence of fires,” said Robbie Johnson, a public information officer with the Idaho Department of Lands. “We’re using everything we’ve got — when you have those additional fire starts in an area, you have to say, ‘this needs aircraft over here, and over here,’ and make those rough decisions about the attack. We’ve got really smart people working on that.”
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