Containment continues to increase on the massive Dixie Fire that's been burning for two months in Northern California. The Dixie Fire has burned at least 963,301 acres, or 1,505 square miles, across Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta and Tehama counties, and containment stands at 88%, Cal Fire said in its Saturday evening update.The blaze is the second-largest wildfire in state history and has destroyed at least 1,329 structures, including 728 homes. It is the 14th-most destructive wildfire in state history, according to Cal Fire. Roughly 1,471 structures remain threatened by the Dixie Fire, Cal Fire officials said. More than 4,300 personnel are helping battle the fire.The lead agency managing the Dixie Fire told KCRA 3 that a U.S. Forest Service firefighter assigned to the Dixie fire died from an illness. The firefighter, identified as Marcus Pacheco, was not actively fighting flames when he died.Three other first responders have been injured in the blaze.| MORE | How to help people impacted by Northern California wildfiresMore than 2 million acres have been burned statewide since the beginning of the year. The Dixie Fire is one of several destructive wildfires that have sparked in California this year. The state's landscape is covered in extremely dry vegetation after a dry winter and early heat waves this year. Experts have said climate change has made the West warmer and drier in recent years, which has increased the potential for wildfires to be more frequent and destructive.| RELATED | Wildfire Map: Here's where California fires are burning Dixie Fire evacuation order informationButte CountyClick here for more informationEvacuation mapLassen CountyClick here for full information on evacuation ordersPlumas CountyClick here for full information on evacuation ordersEvacuation mapTehama CountyClick here to sign up for emergency alertsEvacuation mapRoad closuresClick here for up-to-date state highway informationShelter informationShasta County:Word of Life Assembly of God Church, 37341 Main Street off Highway 299 in Burney, CA 96013Plumas County/Lassen County: Holy Family Catholic Church, 108 Taylor Ave. in Portola, CA Sparks Convention Center Hall, #5, 4590 S. Virginia St. in Reno, NVAmerican Red Cross Public Information Line: 855-755-7711 Dixie Fire timeline The blaze sparked July 13 north of the Cresta Dam, which is not far from where the 2018 Camp Fire northeast of Paradise claimed the lives of more than 80 people.The fire had already leveled more than a dozen houses and other structures when it combined with the Fly Fire and tore through the tiny community of Indian Falls in late July. The Plumas County sheriff said more than 100 homes in the Indian Falls and surrounding areas were reported destroyed.On Aug. 4, the fire nearly obliterated the town of Greenville, which dates back to California's Gold Rush era and has some structures more than a century old.| VIDEO BELOW | Dixie Fire rages in GreenvilleThe fire then burned near the communities of Janesville and Susanville, which has a population of about 18,000.Evacuations were later ordered for the Milford area. Cal Fire Director Thom Porter said the Dixie Fire appears to be the first fire to have burned from the west side of the Sierra Nevada all the way to the valley floor on the east side of the mountain range."It is exceedingly resistant to control," he said during a news conference. "While we've had some successes and we've had some lines that we've held and made good progress on, when the winds come we're finding that fires are spotting, in some cases, miles outside of that fire because of the sheer magnitude of the material that's burning." In August, Gov. Gavin Newsom requested a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration to assist state and local wildfire response and recovery efforts in Northern California. | MORE | Plumas County sheriff on Dixie Firefight: ‘Every day we hold each other up'PG&E equipment may be involved in Dixie Fire startPacific Gas & Electric reported to California utility regulators that its equipment may have been involved in the start of the Dixie Fire. The utility said in a filing in July that a repair person responding to a circuit outage on July 13 spotted blown fuses in a conductor atop a pole, a tree leaning into the conductor and fire at the base of the tree.PG&E equipment has repeatedly been linked to major wildfires, including the 2018 fire that ravaged the town of Paradise. | RELATED | PG&E equipment investigated as cause of Fly Fire in Plumas County— The Associated Press contributed to this report.| GET THE KCRA 3 APP FOR THE LATEST ALERTS | Apple iOS | Android |