Experts say there is a lot to learn from the state's second-largest fire, including how it spread — and how firefighters stopped it.
When the Dixie fire sparked in Plumas County on a warm afternoon in July, few could have known that it would morph into the monster it soon became.
“The Dixie fire is the final, nail-in-the-coffin piece of evidence that traditional firefighting methods are not up to the challenge of the kind of
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