Before California has even entered peak fire season, the state has already passed a grim milestone: more than 1 million acres burned.
had surged to 65,475 acres by Thursday morning and remained 0% contained as firefighters working with limited resources struggled to create containment lines in rugged terrain.
“That has been the main focus — critical infrastructure and structures — to protect those things with the resources we’ve had onsite,” said Capt. Keith Wade, a public information officer for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s Incident Management Team 6.California faces unprecedented dangers as record heat, dryness combine with fierce winds
As the blaze continues to spread, fire crews battling the conflagration have more than doubled, with ranks growing from 250 to just over 650. “There’s a lot of operational decisions that need to go into play as we attack these large-scale fires,” he said Thursday. “Where to focus our firefight: Do we take it head-on, or do you determine that it’s best to fight from the air, or do you take more of a defensive stance in certain places?”— had seared more than 678,000 acres by Thursday as containment of the blaze has inched up in recent days.
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