Photos of the California Park Fire

Last Wednesday, a man pushed a burning car into a gully near Chico, a college town north of Sacramento, according to the authorities. Within days, the flames have consumed more than 370,000 acres and the Park fire has become the largest active blaze in the country. Thousands of people are under evacuation orders and at
Photos of the California Park Fire

Last Wednesday, a man pushed a burning car into a gully near Chico, a college town north of Sacramento, according to the authorities. Within days, the flames have consumed more than 370,000 acres and the Park fire has become the largest active blaze in the country.

Thousands of people are under evacuation orders and at least 111 structures have been destroyed, according to Cal Fire.

Residents of this part of California have dealt with one fire after another in recent years. In 2018, the Camp fire destroyed the town of Paradise and became the deadliest fire in state history. In 2021, the Dixie fire burned nearly a million acres. That history loomed large for Paul Mozzino, who was working an afternoon shift at a grocery store in Chico last week when he heard the alerts about a nearby fire. He thought, “Oh God, not again.”

Here are photos from the last few days as the Park fire — already one of the largest in the state’s history — burned through this swath of Northern California.

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Almendra Lawrence contributed reporting.

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