‘My heart is crushed’: US’s largest wildfire levels beloved California town

Greenville, a community of about 1,000 in the Sierra Nevada mountains, reduced to ashes by California's third largest fire ever recorded

The US's largest wildfire raged through a beloved Gold Rush-era California mountain town this week, reducing much of the downtown and surrounding homes to ashes.

Greenville, a remote community of about 1,000 in the Sierra Nevada mountains, was a place of strong character, where neighbors volunteered to move furniture, and writers, musicians, mechanics and chicken farmers mingled, resident Eva Gorman said.