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US suffering worst wildfire season in a decade
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Numerous Fires Burn Even as Western US Evades Widespread Devastation
Despite the inordinate number of fires burning across America’s heat-afflicted West, communities have managed to evade death and destruction so far, but experts warn conditions appear conducive to a severe fire season as the summer deepens into fall.
Firefighters from Cal Fire s Placerville station monitor the Sugar Fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex Fire, in Doyle, Calif., on Friday, July 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
(CN) Fifty-nine large fires are burning across nine states in the American West because prolonged drought and high temperatures created conditions ripe for wildfires.
Arizona, California and Idaho are the epicenters of the fire season right now, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, with Idaho and Arizona both fighting 11 major wildland fires within their borders. There are only seven fires in California, but 114,000 acres have burned, representing a greater total than Idaho a
Firefighters in California are grasping at straws in trying to contain the extreme growth of Northern fire in Western states, forcing major highways to be shut down temporarily and killing two crew members of a small aircraft that crashed in Arizona last Saturday.
The Beech C-90 aircraft was doing a survey of a wildfire in rural Mohave County when it crashed around noon while observing the spread of a lightning-caused Cedar Basin fire, near the tiny community of Wikieup north-west of Phoenix. Unfortunately, the identified victims Jeff Piechura, 62, and Matthew Miller, 48, both died in the incident.
(Photo : Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)