As the past few month have shown, wildfires continue to rage across California, especially during the summer and fall wildfire seasons, with no reprieve in sight. Next year is not likely to be an exception.
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600 square kilometres. crashed while responding to another blaze. dozens are burning in california, to the border with nevada. the beckwourth complex fires, the state s biggest, was started by lightning. a vast area of forest has been closed and people have been evacuated from their homes. in the california desert, they re used to extreme heat, but nothing like this. this isjoshua tree national park, a tourist destination close to the resort of palm springs where temperatures reached a record for the time of year, 48.9 degrees celsius. it s the hottest place on earth. like, this is hot. it s never been hotter. it feels like we re in an oven, yeah. i came from the caribbean, i came from dominican republic, a very hot country, and it s still hot for me
our budget for firefighting has never been higher than it is today. we ve never had more resources and yet we keep making records. 2020, we had over 4 million acres. so what is the lesson from that? we re not going to get ahead of all of these fires and knock them down, the other longer term lesson from that is that this is a long term secular pattern, driven in part by climate change, in part, by climate change. a very clear message. thank you. thousands of people have joined protests against cuba s communist government in the capital, havana, and several other cities. the opposition says the demonstrations which are calling for freedom, democracy and coronavirus vaccines are the biggest on the island in almost 30 years. they come as the country reports a record number of covid infections. stay with us on bbc news,