Officials said 367 fires have ignited between the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, forcing an unknown number of evacuations.
The scorching temperatures arrived in the state Friday, caused by a high-pressure dome hovering largely over the American Southwest, which also created ideal conditions for the lightning storms, weather officials said.
A firefighter walks down a road on Wednesday as flames approach from the LNU Lightning Complex fire in Fairfield, California. Thousands of people fled their homes in Northern California that day as hundreds of fast-moving wildfires spread across the region, burning houses and leading to the death of a helicopter pilot.Of all the wildfires currently reported in the state, the LNU Lightning Complex blaze in Northern California, according to Cal Fire.
California has the most coronavirus cases of any U.S. state, reporting 638,831 as of August 18, according to the state's Department of Public Health. More than 6,000 new cases and 181 deaths were reported that day.that the pandemic had presented"an almost oppressive level of complexity" to fire planning even before the season began.
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