In the small forest community of Cohasset, Ron Ward watched as flames hundreds of feet high from California’s deadly Park Fire approached his family ranch. He had lost insurance coverage on it just a month earlier as

The largest wildfire in the U.S. swelled to nearly 600 square miles on Tuesday morning, bigger than the city of Los Angeles, fire officials in California said, as thousands of firefighters battled the blaze in a remote wilderness area north of Sacramento.

Wildfires across the western United States and Canada have put millions of people under air quality alerts, as thousands of firefighters battle the flames, including the largest wildfire in California this year.

California's wildfires are continuing to burn as firefighters work to contain them. The Park Fire in Butte and Tehama counties is currently the largest of California's active fires and the state's seventh largest wildfire on record.

The largest fire in California this year continues to burn in the northern part of the state after spreading across an area larger than the city of Los Angeles. The Park Fire, which started on July 24 near Chico,