Could Colorado’s type of extreme winter wildfires happen in California? ‘Absolutely,’ Cal Fire official says
The recent cold-weather wildfire in Colorado was a shocker, but it “could absolutely” happen in fire-prone California as well, with the advent of late-season wildfires already offering a warning, a Cal Fire official said Sunday. Where California’s wildfires used to blaze most intensely in September and October, they’ve crept later into the fall in recent years with some — like the December 2017 Thomas Fire — even burning in the winter months, said Cal Fire Assistant Deputy Director Daniel Berlant.
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