Chinese Camp, California saw some of its famed structures burn. A spate of lighting strikes this week ignited a series of wildfires in the Sierra Nevada foothills, including one that damaged multiple ...

A ferocious wildfire has torn through Chinese Camp, Calif., threatening to erase more than 170 years of Gold Rush history as flames consume the town where Chinese miners once sought fortune amid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tanner Radcliffe, a firefighter with the Cal Fire Tuolumne Calaveras Unit, puts water on an engulfed structure during the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters are battling a series of wildfires that erupted in north-central California after thousands of lightning strikes were ...

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The historic gold rush town of Chinese Camp, California, has been devastated by one of multiple lightning-sparked wildfires in three Northern California counties that have burned nearly 14,000 acres ...

Fires sparked by lightning strikes that hit California early Tuesday razed over 13,000 acres in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, officials said. By Yan Zhuang Thomas Fuller and Amy Graff Scores of ...

CHINESE CAMP, Calif. — One of nearly two dozen fires burning across Northern California on Wednesday scorched homes in a Gold Rush town settled in the 1850s by thousands of Chinese miners who had ...

TUOLUMNE COUNTY — A quick-moving wildfire burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners who were driven out of a nearby camp and the blaze grew without containment ...

CHINESE CAMP, Calif. — One of nearly two dozen fires burning across Northern California on Wednesday scorched homes in a Gold Rush town settled in the 1850s by thousands of Chinese miners driven out ...

A quick-moving wildfire scorched thousands of acres Tuesday and burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners who were driven out of a nearby camp. The fire rapidly ...