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More Chico Wildfires

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The Chico Enterprise-​Record has a pretty amaz­ing slideshow of the Hum­boldt Fire, which lasted from June 11 to June 16. Accord­ing to the paper,

Flames from the Hum­boldt Fire chewed through 23,344 acres, destroyed 74 homes, and dam­aged 20 others before it was brought under full con­tain­ment Monday [June 16] just after 6 p.m. Progress against the fire allowed the release of sev­eral crews Sunday and Monday, reduc­ing the number of per­son­nel on the fire lines from a high of 2,500 Friday to around 1,000 today [June 17].

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