In just hours, two Northern California blazes that started Monday exploded past 5,000 acres.
Nearly a dozen wildfires of 300 or more acres continued to burn throughout the state early Tuesday, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said.
Two Northern California fires that started Monday grew particularly fast, each exploding to near 5,000 acres in a matter of hours. This season has already seen 14 California wildfires of more than 1,000 acres; by this date last year, there had been just one.The largest fire of California’s season so far is the in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, had burned 15,611 acres on Monday. The blaze, which started Saturday afternoon in Gorman, was 24% contained. The area under evacuation order expanded to the south, past Pyramid Lake, on Monday afternoon.
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