How California erupted in flames overnight
Newly-born fires torched bone-dry Northern and Southern California throughout the night of November 8. One deadly blaze in particular, the Camp Fire, ripped through 70,000 acres in just 24 hours.
"It's incredible," Michael Gollner, a fire scientist at the University of Maryland, said of the uncontrollable Northern California wildfire. "I don’t know if I want to say unprecedented — but it's getting close to that. It's incredibly rare."
"That blows your mind," Brenda Belongie, lead meteorologist of the U.S. Forest Service's Predictive Services in Northern California, said in an interview. "That impresses us in the industry." Read more...
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How California erupted in flames overnight
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