STORY: :: Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office
:: Released on September 2, 2025
:: Tuolumne County, California
:: A massive wildfire burns in Northern California, with flames approaching roads
:: Chinese Camp, California
:: September 3, 2025
:: The fire burned a historic Gold Rush town once home to thousands of Chinese laborers
The remote village of Chinese Camp, a town of fewer than 100 residents on the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California’ Gold Country region, was particularly hard hit by one of the fires.
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.
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