'We Are Under Extreme Weather Conditions': Wildfires Rage From California to Alaska
Copy Link The Beckwourth Complex Fire reached more than 92,000 acres on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 and has prompted evacuations in Lassen County near the California-Nevada border. The U.S. Department of Defense has provided C-130 MAFFS-equipped aircraft to help control the fire. (Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Defense) Wildfires that torched homes and forced thousands to evacuate burned across 10 parched Western states on Tuesday, and the largest, in Oregon, threatened a portion of California’s power supply. Nearly 60 wildfires tore through bone-dry timber and brush from Alaska to Wyoming...
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