Iran Press/ America: A fire that allegedly started when a man pushed a flaming car into a gully in a Northern California park on Wednesday has quickly ballooned into the West’s largest fire burning right now and one of the largest in state history.
The Park Fire in Northern California grew rapidly to more than 350,000 acres Saturday, officials said, making what was already California’s largest wildfire this year among the largest in state history.
Thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire in Northern California received some help from the weather Saturday hours after it exploded, scorching an area greater than the size of Los Angeles. The blaze was one of several tearing through the western United States and Canada, fueled by wind and heat.
Cooler temperatures and increased humidity could help slow the Park Fire, the largest this year in California. Its intensity and dramatic spread led fire officials to make unwelcome comparisons to the monstrous Camp Fire, which burned out of control in nearby Paradise in 2018, killing 85 people and torching 11,000 homes.
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