Update, August 12:
The acreage of the Park Fire has increased to 429,263 acres.
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Update, August 10:
The Park Fire is now 429,135 acres.
Containment has grown from 34% to 36%.
According to Cal Fire, 636 buildings have been destroyed and 49 have been damaged.
Over 6,000 firefighters are still working to put out the fire.
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All evacuation orders and warnings for the massive Park Fire are now lifted for Butte County.
CAL FIRE does specify that some orders and warnings remain in Tehama, Shasta and Plumas counties.
The Forest Service says the 428,808-acre fire is estimated to be fully contained sometime on August 31. It's still 34% contained.
CAL FIRE says it has destroyed 636 buildings and damaging nearly 50 others.
More than 6,300 firefighters are fighting it across four counties: Butte, Plumas, Shasta and Tehama.
It started July 24th in Upper Bidwell Park, East of Chico.
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The man suspected of starting the fire, Dean Stout II of Chico, was charged with arson, for allegedly starting the Park Fire, during his first court appearance late last month.
The Butte County District Attorney's Office says he pushed a flaming car down an embankment, starting the massive fire.
Numerous evacuation orders and warnings remain in effect that you can see by clicking on this line.
CAL FIRE says the fire's perimeter is more than 260 miles which means it has burned more than three times the surface area of Lake Tahoe.
The National Weather Service previously shared a video showing the smoke impacts of the Park Fire in northern California and Nevada.
Dense smoke from the #ParkFire will continue to impact portions of northeast California and northwestern Nevada. Light northerly nighttime winds this weekend push smoke further into the Basin & Range each morning. #cawx #nvwx pic.twitter.com/LdcPE3TuiX
— NWS Reno (@NWSReno) July 27, 2024
The Park Fire is 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.
Climate change is increasing the frequency of lightning strikes as the region endures recording-breaking heat and bone-dry conditions.
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