As firefighters put out the huge fires that burned through Northern California, thousands of evacuees began returning home. Many residents in the region are facing uncertain, troubled days ahead as officials assess damage from the fires, which killed at least seven people, burned more than 1.2m acres and destroyed nearly …
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Three massive wildfires erupted Sunday through parched northern California landscape on Sunday as firefighters raced to dig breaks and make other preparations ahead of a terrible weather system that caught high winds and more of the lightning that extinguished the enormous and scores of other fires erupted, putting nearly a …
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A temperature of 54.4C – as 129.9F – was recorded in Death Valley, California, in what some extreme observers think may be the worst reading ever recorded reliably on the planet. The U.S. National Water Service’s automated weather station at Furnace Creek near the Nevada border hit the extreme height …
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