Deer walk among the ashes of a California town.
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The small, scenic river town of Klamath River in Northern California was left in ashes this week after the almightyFor its 200 residents, life and the landscape is forever changed. Photos from the remnants of the community, still under evacuation orders, reveal the devastation. A search and rescue worker looks through the remains of a home that was destroyed by the McKinley fire as it burned along Highway 96.“It’s very sad. It’s very disheartening,” 80-year-old Roger Derry, “Some of our oldest homes, 100-year-old homes, are gone. It’s a small community. Good people, good folks, for the most part, live here and in time will rebuild. But it’s going to take some time now.”
The unincorporated community stretches for 11 miles along Highway 96 on the banks of the Klamath River — the second-largest river in California, that runs from Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon some 257 miles to the Pacific coast. River-front property in the community of Klamath River left in ruins after it burned in the McKinney Fire in the Klamath National Forest, California, on August 1, 2022. - Firefighters faced"extremely dangerous" conditions Monday as they battled to save a community of 8,000 residents, with lightning strikes threatening to worsen a blaze that has already killed at least two people and become California's biggest fire of the year.