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Historic Wildfires, Second And Third Largest On Record, Are Ripping Through California

Tim Pearce
Historic Wildfires, Second And Third Largest On Record, Are Ripping Through California
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California firefighters are struggling to contain two of the largest blazes ever recorded in the state after days of high temperatures and little moisture created an environment set for disaster.

The state is currently experiencing one of its worst fire seasons on record as more than 7,000 fires have burned through more than 1.4 million acres. Roughly half of the destruction is due to two fire clusters, the LNU Lightning Complex and SCU Lightning Complex, that have together burned more than 700,000 acres.

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