Tuesday Top of the Scroll: California sets record with 2M acres burned so far this year
Wildfires have burned more than 2 million acres in California this year, setting a state record even as crews battled dozens of growing blazes in sweltering temperatures Monday that strained the electrical grid and threatened power outages for millions. The most striking thing about the record is how early it was set, with the most dangerous part of the year still ahead…About 30 houses were destroyed in the remote hamlet of Big Creek, … [but] a school, church, library, historic general store and a major hydroelectric plant were spared…
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