Dixie Fire Update: Firefighters Battle To Save Chester; ‘We Lost Greenville Tonight'; Wildfire Tops 350,000 Acres

By CBS San Francisco Staff:

GREENVILLE (CBS SF) — Crews continued a running battle with the Dixie Fire in the burning neighborhoods of Greenville and to the northwest in Chester early Thursday, trying to save what homes and structures they could and making sure residents were able to escape the wall of flames.

In an emotional Facebook posting, local Congressman Doug LaMalfa summed up the extent of the devastation — “We lost Greenville tonight.”

At sunrise, much of the community of 1,129 residents had been reduced to smoldering rubble. Fire crews were still extinguishing flames.

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