'We're seeing truly frightening fire behavior, I don't know how to overstate that.' Pyrocumulus, dry lightning, firenadoes. It sounds like something out of an apocalyptic movie, but it's a dangerous reality that firefighters are facing.
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Pyrocumulus, dry lightning, firenadoes. It sounds like something out of an apocalyptic movie, but it's a dangerous reality that firefighters are facing. "We're seeing truly frightening fire behavior, I don't know how to overstate that. We have a lot of veteran firefighters who have served for 20, 30 years and have never seen behavior like this, especially day after day, and the conditions we're in. So we really are in uncharted territory around some of these extreme, large fires and the behavior we're seeing," said Plumas National Forest Supervisor Chris Carlton.
Hundreds flee popular tourist resort by boat as wildfires blaze in Turkey 01:27In the past couple of days, Turkey has been ravaged by more than 108 forest fires which killed at least eight people.Wildfires caused the evacuation of more than 2,000 by boat from the popular tourist destination of Bodrum on Saturday and Sunday. The flames have been fueled by scorching summer temperatures and conditions that experts say have been worsened by climate change.
Read more:876,055 This is the number of acres burned so far this year in California. This number is well ahead of last year's pace, when only 273,301 acres had burned by this date. 2020 was the worst fire season in modern history, with a total of 4.25 million acres burned.CNN's Haley Brink and Hannah Gard contributed to this report.
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