PG&E power line may have started the Fly Fire that merged with big Dixie Fire
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A home burns as flames from the Dixie fire tear through the Indian Falls neighborhood of unincorporated Plumas County, California on Saturday, July 24, 2021. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)JOSH EDELSON/AFP / TNS
A smaller wildfire that became part of the huge Dixie Fire now burning in the Sierra Nevada may have started when a tree fell on a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power line.
PG&E said late Monday that it filed a report to state regulators about its possible link to the Fly Fire, which burned more than 4,000 acres before merging with the much larger Dixie Fire.
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Wildfire updates: Dixie Fire now largest in California; smoke enters the Sacramento Valley
Sacramento Bee 3 hrs ago Amelia Davidson, The Sacramento Bee
Jul. 23 As California s fire season rages on and firefighters take on multiple blazes, the Dixie Fire has become the state s largest wildfire this year to date and is driving smoke into the Sacramento Valley.
The Dixie Fire is burning on the border of Butte and Plumas counties, in the burn scar of the deadly 2018 Camp Fire. It has rapidly expanded to 142,960 acres (223 square miles), growing nearly 40,000 acres since Thursday morning.
Although most of the smoke from the fire has pushed east into Nevada, small amounts drifted south into the Sacramento area Friday afternoon, affecting capital residents for the first time since the fire began July 14.