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New maps show how climate change is making California's "fire weather" worse
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New maps show how climate change is making California's "fire weather" worse

On California’s fall fire days — days with high temperatures and wind speeds, as well as low humidity — all it takes is a spark from a downed power line to start an inferno. New research indicates that they’re about to become a lot more common.
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California’s August Complex Fire is now a gigafire

A single wildfire in California has reached the stunning size of more than 1 million acres, becoming the first "gigafire" in the state in decades.

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Uncontrolled Glass Fire still raging in Napa Valley, Calistoga and Santa Rosa: ‘Like a bomb went off’
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Uncontrolled Glass Fire still raging in Napa Valley, Calistoga and Santa Rosa: ‘Like a bomb went off’

The wind-whipped Glass and Zogg fires grew overnight with no containment. Flare-ups also forced evacuations in Paradise and Magalia.
Under orange skies, the Bay Area sees the future

Under orange skies, the Bay Area sees the future

As Western wildfires transformed the skies over San Francisco into an apocalyptic spectacle, the perils of climate change became impossible to ignore. 
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Why California, Oregon and Washington State are searching for help to battle fires
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Why California, Oregon and Washington State are searching for help to battle fires

With millions of acres ablaze across the West Coast, states are having a tough time finding available fire crews. California resorted to calling in a team of firefighters from Israel.
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