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Record-Setting Blazes Continue To Rip Through Northern California

On all sides of the San Francisco Bay Area, the three largest blazes are burrowing through forest and rural areas mostly uncontained, officials said.

Hundreds of thousands of acres continue to burn across California in some of the largest wildfires in state history, as the northern part of the state braces for high winds with lightning that threaten to spark new blazes.

For more than 10 days, firefighters have been battling two dozen major wildfires that have torched more than 1.1 million acres of land, according to Cal Fire. On all sides of the San

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