Firefighters battling the state’s largest wildfire braced for the change in weather by constructing fuel breaks on Friday to keep the flames from reaching a marijuana-growing enclave.
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California wildfire likely to grow from wind, low humidity
The Bobcat Fire is 15 percent contained and has destroyed nearly 100,000 acres.
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Winds push California fire into Mojave Desert
Homes are destroyed as the Bobcat Fire, which is only 15 percent contained, grew by almost 20,000 acres.
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Firefighter dies battling wildfire in California
The blaze erupted earlier this month from a smoke-generating pyrotechnic device used by a couple to reveal their baby’s gender.
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Leonard Pitts: Is it too late for a nation engulfed in fires and COVID deniers?
Now the bill for ignorance and inaction comes due, payable in currency of ashes and fevers, blackened homes, congested lungs and death.
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Lingering bad air throws another challenge at fire-ravaged West Coast
Hazardous air has forced businesses to close and grounded flights, and is creeping into homes.
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Smoke from wildfires in the West reaches East Coast and even Europe
Plumes from deadly and record-breaking fires are being caught in the atmospheric jet stream and carried across the United States.
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Wildfires during pandemic intensify economic pain in West
Blazes are wiping out businesses and homes at a time when residents’ livelihoods were already in jeopardy.
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Western fires raise fight over climate change prior to Trump’s visit
The Democratic governors say the fires are a consequence of climate change, while the Trump administration has blamed poor forest management for the flames that have raced through the region.
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Ten now dead in massive Northern California wildfire
Authorities announce 7 more deaths Thursday in Butte County as searchers continue looking for 16 missing people.