Summer might be over, but California is currently facing a wildfire outbreak so severe that California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency, citing “historic” winds and “unprecedented” fire weather conditions.
The Kincade fire, which is wreaking havoc north of San Francisco, has burned over 73,000 acres in the state’s iconic wine country. As fires rage 300 miles north, Southern California’s Getty fire has burned over 600 acres in West Los Angeles and is poised for greater destruction. The area is scrambling to grapple with its own potentially catastrophic weather, as a potentially record-setting Santa Ana wind event sweeps in Tuesday night.
Cal Fire officials are saying the Kincade fire could burn for “weeks if not months”—unusual considering that the normal summer wildfire season was considered “calm.” The National Weather Service, in an unprecedented move, has issued an “extreme red flag warning” for residents of much of Los Angeles and Ventura counties near the Getty fire due as winds pick up and threaten to spread the fire farther, faster.
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