What’s driving Northern California’s freak ‘fire siege’?
The weekend’s record-bursting heat wave and freak summer lightning storm have left an already parched Northern California with a rash of rapidly spreading wildfires — more than 300 blazes — something rarely seen before and possibly unprecedented in scope, climate scientists say.
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