The Dixie and Tamarack fires have chewed through nearly 100,000 acres with little containment, officials said Tuesday. That update came after Monday saw the Dixie fire, burning in Butte and Plumas counties, generate its own pyrocumulonimbus cloud, which created its own lightning — something the Tamarack fire, on the California-Nevada border, also did Tuesday.
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California fires are burning faster, hotter, more intensely — and getting harder to fight
The dryness of the vegetation, primed by both long-term drought and shorter-term heat waves, is making it easy for fires to ignite and even easier for them to spread.
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California hit by record-breaking fire destruction: ‘Climate change is real, it’s bad’
Already this year, there have been more than twice as many acres burned than during the same period last year — and hundreds more fires.
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‘Extraordinary conditions’: California faces power shortage as fires threaten electric lines
California’s energy operator issued a third Flex Alert in four days, attributing it to ‘extraordinary conditions’ due to record-breaking heat and fire.
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No such thing as ‘safe and sane’ fireworks in a bone-dry California primed to burn
Officials across the state are pleading with the public to refrain from setting off fireworks this Fourth of July weekend after one of the hottest, driest Junes in recent memory. “All it takes is a single firework or a single spark,” one fire chief said.
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California still highly segregated by race despite growing diversity, research shows
Although the Los Angeles area has become more diverse in the past 30 years, it is barely more integrated today than it was then, and it remains the sixth-most segregated metro region of 221 studied.
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Flex Alert extended through Friday as heat wave sears California
In response to soaring temperatures, California’s electrical grid operator issues a Flex Alert asking residents to conserve energy during peak evening hours Thursday and Friday.
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In new milestone, California administers 40 millionth dose of COVID-19 vaccine
California officials announced the latest total, 40,098,803 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, Thursday afternoon.
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California’s biggest heat wave of the year heightens drought and fire fears
‘Early heat waves and more frequent heat waves this summer will exacerbate an already serious situation,’ one climatologist said.
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Cannabis dispensary offering 1-cent products as COVID-19 vaccine incentives
The Contra Costa cannabis company says the promotion is an effort to help the state reach immunity against COVID-19.