Dixie Fire Claims Its First Victim: A First Responder

The Dixie Fire has claimed the beingness of a archetypal responder.

In the Dixie Fire incidental update connected Saturday night, authorities reported that determination was 1 archetypal responder fatality. So far, it’s the lone idiosyncratic who has died arsenic a effect of the monolithic fire.

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Dixie Fire Incident Update 9.4.21 7AM
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No further accusation has been released.

A assemblage gathering scheduled for Saturday nighttime whitethorn shed much airy connected the victim.

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The Dixie Fire present stands astatine 889,001 acres, making it the second-largest recorded wildfire successful California. It is 56 percent contained.

CBS13 Staff