‘We lost Greenville’: Wildfire burns through historic California town

Battalion Chief Sergio Mora watches as the Dixie Fire tears through the Greenville community of Plumas County (Noah Berger/AP)

A three-week-old wildfire has destroyed historic buildings in a small town in northern California.

The Dixie Fire, swollen by bone-dry vegetation and 40mph gusts, raged through the Sierra Nevada community of Greenville on Wednesday evening.