The deadly California wildfires have burned over 1 million acres -- and there's no end in sight as thousands of firefighters struggle to contain the blazes and more emerge.
A massive wildfire in Northern California has grown to become the second-largest in state history as it and hundreds of other blazes have now scorched nearly one million acres.The LNU Lightning Complex Fire that is burning across five counties — Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Yolo and Stanislaus — has spread to more than 314,000 acres, officials…
Although firefighters have seen a letup in the high winds and heat that plagued Central and Northern California for much of the week, another round of thunderstorms that will deliver little rain but lightning discharges that could start even more blazes is anticipated as early as Sunday and lasting through Tuesday.In seven days, the California…
(CNN)California firefighters struggled to contain massive wildfires that have left at least four people dead and turned neighborhoods into ash and smoldering ruins. About 119,000 people have evacua…
Northern California is enduring another day under siege, with the huge blazes ripping across the region still growing and still almost completely uncontained.Right NowTwo growing groups of fires — the S.C.U. Lightning Complex and L.N.U. Lightning Complex — rank as the seventh-largest and 10th-largest fires in recent state history, Gov. Gavin Newsom said.VideotranscripttranscriptCalifornia Struggles to…
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(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…