Wind-whipped flames from nearly two dozen separate blazes have scorched more than 13,000 acres (5,261 hectares) of sun-baked dry grass, brush and timber since a lightning storm ignited the fires on Tuesday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
According to a Reuters journalist on the scene, the blaze destroyed dozens of homes in and around Chinese Camp, a remnant of the Gold Rush-era mining community first settled by thousands of Chinese laborers in the mid-19th century.
Three other landmark buildings, the Chinese Camp Store and Tavern, and the town's post office and its pagoda-style public school, also survived the fire, she said.
The full extent of property losses and evacuations had yet to be determined, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
At least two evacuation shelters were opened for people displaced by the fires, along with shelters for livestock and smaller domestic pets.
The 22 blazes comprising the TCU September Lightning Complex fires ranked as the largest of about a dozen wildfire incidents documented across the state by CalFire on Wednesday. But they paled in destructive force compared with the Los Angeles fires in January that killed at least 31 people and destroyed nearly 16,000 homes- REUTERS
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