Firefighter assigned to California blaze dies of illness

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A firefighter has died of an unwellness portion assigned to 1 of California’s largest wildfires. Fire officials announced the decease this play but didn’t supply details. The firefighter was assigned to the Dixie Fire successful Northern California. It’s the second-largest blaze successful authorities history. The decease is the archetypal this wildfire season, which has seen blazes successful the Sierra Nevada pain much than 1,000 homes and unit tens of thousands to evacuate. Authorities accidental they’re making bully advancement against the Caldor Fire adjacent the California-Nevada borderline but immoderate 22,000 residents of South Lake Tahoe stay evacuated.