Wildfires have scorched more than one million acres in California so far
More than 1.1 million acres have been destroyed by wildfires in California, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The state is also experiencing two of the three largest fires in its history. More than one million acres have burned across the state as of Monday. The two biggest fires: the SCU Lightning Complex fire and the LNU Lightning Complex fire, are tearing through five counties south of San Francisco and another five counties north of the city by the bay.
And as the flames sear the landscape, firefighting resources are stretched thin on every front. "Foundationally and fundamentally we're at a point every resource at our disposal, every resource that we have within the state, is being used," California Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a news conference on Monday.
"You could overlay half of one of these fires and it covers the entire city of San Francisco," Cal Fire spokesman Brice Bennett said according to NPR.
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