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Extreme wildfires along the US West Coast generating their own weather

Extreme wildfires along the US West Coast generating their own weather In the wake of the hottest days on record with temperatures reaching far into the triple digits this month, California and the western United States are in the throes of a worsening fire season. Firefighters battle the Tamarack Fire in the Markleeville community of Alpine County, Calif., on Saturday, July 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Extreme heat throughout the region as well as in western Canada, has sparked a growing wave of wildfires and tens of thousands of evacuations. The National Interagency Fire Center reports that, as of Wednesday, 78 large fires are burning in 13 states and have so far destroyed 1,346,736 acres.

California: PG&E to start burying 10K miles of lines in fire-prone areas, CEO says

Updated: 7:14 PM PDT Jul 21, 2021 Daniel Macht Hilda Flores Pacific Gas & Electric Company CEO Patti Poppe said Wednesday that the utility is kicking off a project to ultimately bury 10,000 miles of lines in California’s highest-risk fire areas.Days after the utility announced that its equipment may have been involved in the start of the big Dixie Fire burning in the Sierra Nevada, Poppe appeared in Chico to announce what she called “one of the largest infrastructure projects in the history of our state.”“We are committing to burying 10,000 miles of lines starting in our highest fire threat districts in our highest risk areas,” Poppe said of the “Make it Safe, Bury the lines” program. The program began on Wednesday.“We know this is an extraordinary condition in an extraordinary time, she said. It requires extraordinary solutions and extraordinary thinking and extraordinary people.”Why make the announcement nowPoppe said she h

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