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                     California sets record with 2M acres burned so far this year




            A firefighter battles the Creek Fire as it threatens homes in the Cascadel Woods neighborhood of Madera County, Calif., on Monday, Sept. 7, 2020.
                                                                                                                                            Associated Press

            By  MARCIO  JOSE  SANCHEZ  and  record is how early it was set, with  acres (793,184 hectares) burned in  the  order  came  to  evacuate  her
            CHRISTOPHER WEBER                   the  most  dangerous  part  of  the  2018.  Cal  Fire  began  tracking  the  hometown  of  Auberry,  just  north-
            Associated Press                    year  ahead,  said  Lynne  Tolma-   numbers in 1987.                    east  of  Fresno.  Sheriff's  deputies
            SHAVER LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Wildfires  choff,  spokeswoman  for  the  Cali-  Firefighters struggled to corral sev-  went to her ranch property to pick
            have  burned  more  than  2  million  fornia Department of Forestry and  eral  dangerous  blazes  ahead  of  up  her  92-year-old  mother,  Shirley
            acres in California this year, setting  Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.   dry,  hot  winds  predicted  to  raise  MacLean.  They  reunited  at  an
            a state record even as crews bat-   "It's a little unnerving because Sep-  fire danger to critical levels in the  evacuation center.
            tled  dozens  of  growing  blazes  in  tember  and  October  are  histori-  coming  days.  Evacuation  orders  "I  hope  like  heck  the  fire  doesn't
            sweltering  temperatures  Monday  cally our worst months for fires," she  were expanded to more mountain  reach my little ranch," Rios said. "It's
            that  strained  the  electrical  grid  said. "It's usually hot, and the fuels  communities  as  the  largest  blaze  not looking good right now. It's an
            and  threatened  power  outages  really dry out. And we see more of  churned through the Sierra Nation-     awfully big fire."
            for millions.                       our wind events."                   al Forest.
            The  most  striking  thing  about  the  The  previous  high  was  1.96  million  Debra  Rios  wasn't  home  when            Continued on Page 2
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