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Tag: wildfires 2017

This photo provided by Eliot Oppenheimer, taken late in the evening Sunday, July 9, 2017, shows the Whittier fire burning in the mountains west of Santa Barbara, Calif. In Southern California, thousands of people remained out of their homes as a pair of fires raged at different ends of Santa Barbara County. The fires broke out amid a blistering weekend heat wave that toppled temperature records.

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Western Wildfires Feed On Grass Brought On By Winter Rain

Don Thompson, Associated Press / Andrew Dalton, Associated Press

Posted on July 11, 2017 · Major winter downpours that pulled the state out of years of drought also brought a layer of grass that early-summer fires are greedily feeding on.

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