The town of Chico, population 93,000, could be next in the path of the wildfire, which was forecast to be driven westward overnight by 35-mile-per hour (56 km-per-hour) winds, said Butte County Fire Chief Darren Read. Those reports have not yet been verified," Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea told a news conference. The blaze adds to what is already one of the worst fire years ever in California. It’s a very bad fire,” Officer Ryan Lambert of the California Highway Patrol said of the evacuation. The hospital was later destroyed, Mike Mangas, a spokesman for operator Dignity Health, told Action News Now.

Source: bd News24 November 09, 2018 02:48 UTC