Dixie Fire Update: Dire Warning For Dixie Firefighters: ‘We Are Warm, We Are Dry, We Are Unstable'

From CBS San Francisco:

PLUMAS COUNTY (CBS SF/AP) — Fire crews continued to struggle with difficult weather conditions overnight and faced the threat of afternoon thundershowers in the Lassen Volcanic National Park Thursday as the Dixie Fire grew to over 510,000 acres nearly a month after it was first sparked.

The Dixie Fire — which started July 13 and is the largest wildfire burning in the nation — continues to threaten a dozen small communities in the northern Sierra Nevada, even as the fire’s southern end was mostly corralled by fire lines.

According to the latest Cal Fire update, the blaze has burned 510,227 acres (over 797 square miles) and stands at 30% containment. Over 1,100 structures have been destroyed. Many of those structures were homes in the nearly obliterated town of Greenville that the fire swept through last week.

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