Wildfire burns into historic California Gold Rush town amid hundreds of lightning strikes | NYGazet

Wildfire in Northern California has scorched more than 12,000 acres as of Wednesday morning, burning homes in the Gold Rush town of Chinese Camp.

Tanner Radcliffe, a firefighter with the Cal Fire Tuolumne Calaveras Unit, puts water on an engulfed structure during the Lightning Complex fire Tuesday night in Chinese Camp, Calif. Portions of a historic California Gold Rush town once home to Chine... [1949 chars]