Town burns to ashes in raging Northern California wildfire
The Hindu
Around 100 homes and other buildings burned in the fast-moving River Fire that broke out Wednesday near Colfax, a town of about 2,000. There was no containment and about 6,000 people were ordered to evacuate in Placer and Nevada counties, says the state fire officials.
The little California mountain town of Greenville was a place of community and strong character, the kind of place where neighbours volunteered to move furniture, colorful baskets of flowers brightened Main Street, and writers, musicians, mechanics and chicken farmers mingled, said Eva Gorman. Now, it's ashes. As hot, bone-dry, gusty weather hit California, the state's largest current wildfire raged through the Gold Rush-era Sierra Nevada community of about 1,000, incinerating much of the downtown that included wooden buildings more than a century old.More Related News