14 photos of what was left of Greenville, the California town devastated by the Dixie fire

One the forest fire consumed much of the center and a few neighboring houses in a small town Northern California.

The Dixie fire raged Greenville Wednesday evening destroy businesses and homes and make the sky glow orange.

“If you are still in the Greenville area you are in imminent danger and you MUST go now !!” Plumas County Police wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.

The fire, declared three weeks ago, has spread 1,108 square kilometers in Plumas and Butte counties.

Firefighters tried to protect the population, located about 450 kilometers northeast of San Francisco, clear road debris and mark risk areas.

Forecasters warned Thursday of some particularly dry conditions and with winds of up to 40 miles per hour. It could spread fire through forests, pastures and shrubs, especially on the northern and northeastern fronts of the Great Dixie Fire.

“I think we definitely have a tough day ahead of us.”, He said Shannon pratherfrom the United States Forest Service.

Firefighters They were able to save houses and contain long stretches of fire. But the flames jumped the perimeter lines in some places on Tuesday, prompting evacuation orders for some 15,000 people east of Lake Almanor, according to firefighters. The heat of the flames created a pyrocumulus or cloud of fire.

The fire has threatened thousands of homes and destroyed 67 homes and other buildings since the start of July 14. Until Thursday it was contained in a 35%.

A dangerous weather in southern california, where alerts and advisories were issued for inland valleys, mountains and deserts for most of the week.

Heat waves and a historic drought associated with climate change have made fires more difficult to fight in the western United States. Scientists point out that climate change has made the region much hotter and drier over the past 30 years and it will continue to make the most extreme weather conditions and fires more frequent and destructive.

More than 20,000 firefighters and support workers battled 97 major wildfires covering 7,560 square kilometers in 13 US states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

(With AP information)

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