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California Firefighters Race to Subdue Flames Before Heat, Winds Return

Reuters

   LOS ANGELES - Five weeks after California erupted in deadly wildfires
   supercharged by record heat and howling winds, crews battling flames
   pushed Monday to consolidate their gains before the return of the
   blistering, gusty weather.

   California has lost far more landscape to wildfires this summer than
   during any previous entire year, with scores of conflagrations, many
   sparked by catastrophic lightning storms, scorching about 3.4 million
   acres since mid-August.

   The previous record was just less than 2 million acres burned in 2018.

   As of Monday, more than 19,000 firefighters continued to wage war on 27
   major blazes across the state, according to the California Department
   of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire).

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