Winds and bone-dry conditions hamper firefighters’ efforts to contain destructive fires that are devouring the forests of drought-stricken Northern California
Fire managers were rushing resources to the fire growing on steep slopes in a forested region southwest of Lake Tahoe.
“The hope is with the additional resources and personnel on scene, we can really start to build that box around this fire and start the containment," said Keith Wade of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Climate change has made the West warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make the weather more extreme and wildfires more destructive, according to scientists.
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