McKinney fire in Northern California explodes to 30,000 acres

The McKinney fire burning in Siskiyou County has exploded in size over the weekend. Officials said it is already larger than the Oak Fire burning near Yosemite.

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[gabrielavaldivia]

Prayers to families and thankful for firefighters who risk their lives everyday going into action
Thank your for your service 🙏

[greggreg]

Wow it seems like every summer California is always on fire 🔥

[limited]

Don't we go through this every year in CA?

[pamelawing]

I was just in that area a couple of weeks ago. My friend and I took a little road trip and we left from Reno. We drove through some of the burn areas from LAST year. I am SOOOO tired of this. Just a shame. We need to plant a whole bunch of trees.

I just drove back from the Bay Area yesterday and toing from Truckee to Reno, there was a huge fire there some years ago. I noticed the hillside was covered with new trees. I certainly will not live to see them to maturity, but my brother's grand kids probably will. It was good to see that.

[sergelouissieben]

God bless the firefighters and everyone effected by this fire 🔥

[colettelane]

Prayers for the safety of everyone who lives there, and the fire and ground crew's. 😇❤️🙏

[tstieber]

When we moved to San Diego from NorCal full-time 8 years ago, we were worried about potentially moving to wildfire country and being affected by smoke. Since then, we've had zero significant fires in our region and a few in the greater SoCal region but virtually no smoke impact and ironically realized we left what has since become Wildfire Central. So sad to see the constant NorCal fires while we go relatively unscathed in the south. 😢

[michaelc.ateoate]

We had weird storms roll through late yesterday in Dorris east of McKinney and it couldn't have been much more than 3 1/2 hours later the smoke got here must have been lightning over there. We had gusts of 50 miles an hour.

[judeinLA.]

*’Only You can prevent Forest Fires’*

-Smokey The Bear

[normansilver]

It is now 3:21 PM on 7-31 and this fire has now grown to almost 70, 000 acres.

[Mrintros]

Anyone who reading this, I pray that whatever is hurting or whatever you are constantly stressing about gets better. May the dark throughts, The overthinking, the doubt exist your mind right now. May replace confusion. May peace and calmness fill in your life.🙏💞

[pkghalm]

California being on fire isn't exactly breaking news.

[bonniebon]

I have California wildfire fatigue. Hope everyone is okay.

[AJk]

You can say our summers are always lit in CA

[steveh]

I thought they said it was only 10 acres yesterday, so in one day, it grew to 30, 000. That’s fast. They couldn’t contain it at 10 acres?

[joedrt]

since i was n high school i can remember northern cali as being on fire w major losses n property, money,wildlife....35 years, north cali has been ablaze... wtf...😶

[lifeongps]

Where is that earthquake we hear so much about??? These fires are not working, they happen every year????

[mc]

Oh no, every summer we got smoke all the way from CA, Canada, Hope this year is better.

[omarshepherd]

This is what happens when YOU mistreat what THE CREATOR HAS MADE HE SAY ENOUGH.

[THEERDCO]

Stop using the word "explodes" so much..