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Towns burn to ashes, others unaccounted for as Dixie Fire rages through Sierra Nevada
GREENVILLE, Calif. - Eva Gorman says the little California mountain town of Greenville was a place of community and strong character, the kind of place where neighbors volunteered to move furniture, colorful baskets of flowers brightened Main Street, and writers, musicians, mechanics and chicken farmers mingled.Now, it’s ashes.As hot, bone-dry, gusty weather hit California, the state’s largest current wildfire raged through the Gold Rush-era Sierra Nevada community of about 1,000, incinerating much of the downtown that included wooden buildings more than a century old.The winds were expected to calm and change direction heading into the weekend but that good news came too late for Gorman."It’s just completely devastating.