California fire season likely to last through December, with no rain in sight
by Hannah Fry and Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times
Nov 05, 2019
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - The sun was beginning to set on Halloween when a small fire began to glow on a hillside near Santa Paula. Within seconds - fanned by the most potent Santa Ana winds of the season - the blaze roared to life with immense speed, chewing through thousands of acres of bone-dry brush and eventually consuming homes.
Devastating fire weather that ushered in a flurry of blazes across the state last month helped the Maria fire, which charred nearly 10,000 acres in four days, earn the title of
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