Destructive groups of simultaneously burning wildfires have torched more than 1 million acres — about the size of Rhode Island.
. Evacuation centers, which help care for the state’s more vulnerable residents, are also struggling with how to house people while following social distancing measures and safety guidelines., sapping and stretching resources as firefighters are continuously deployed to massive, concurrent incidents up and down the state.
The combination of lightning, which is unlikely to be accompanied by any rain, will hamper efforts to control the current fires and likely start new ones, Round said. Since Aug. 15, nearly 12,000 lightning strikes have contributed to more than 585 new fires. Some of those have grown into large fires, which Cal Fire defines as more than 10 acres.
In 10 days, the LNU and SCU complexes have already become some of the largest the state has ever seen. Normally, these types of fires are caused by or worsened by intense winds, but Gollner told BuzzFeed News that they"didn't happen under the highest wind conditions." Meanwhile, Newsom said that the state is"putting everything we have on this," and called on President Donald Trump to declare the incident a"major disaster" and provide help.
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