’We lost Greenville tonight.' Dixie Fire destroys much of California town ➡ California's largest wildfire, the Dixie Fire, has leveled much of the downtown and some surrounding homes in the small town of Greenville on Wednesday evening as the sky was cast in an orange glow. A gas station, hotel and bar were among many structures gutted in the town, which dates to California’s Gold Rush era and has some buildings more than a century old. Firefighters were able to save homes and hold large stretches of the blaze. But flames jumped perimeter lines in a few spots Tuesday, prompting additional evacuation orders for about 15,000 people east of Lake Almanor, fire officials said. Heat waves and historic drought tied to climate change have made wildfires harder to fight in the American West. Scientists say climate change has made the region much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. #california #wildfires #dixiefire | 📸 : Noah Berger (AP), Josh Edelson (Getty Images)