Amid the tragedy is the dreadful knowledge that the peak of the fire season does not arrive until September or October.
More than a million acres is on fire right now - an area five times the size of New York - and four times the size of all the wildfires that occurred in California in 2019.Firefighters are having to prioritise which fires to fight, with state resources stretched to a capacity not seen before.
David Janssen spoke to me from Mines Canyon Road where a fire more than 340,000 acres in size is only 10% under control.
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