California wildfire risk eases with rains spreading in parched state
California’s wildfire threat could ease over the next few weeks, with a series of storms bringing much-needed moisture after heat and drought torched record acreage in the state. The first downpour is already spreading across Northern California Friday, and that will be followed by progressively stronger systems through next week …
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