Climate change may be causing an early start to fire season, experts say
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Replay Video UP NEXT A wildfire is currently blazing through the mountains of Southern California ahead of the area s typical fire season. While authorities suspect the Pacific Palisades Fire may have been ignited by an arsonist, the fire, which has currently spread to over 800 acres, offers more evidence that climate change is affecting the behavior of fires in the West, experts say. Now that fire season has extended to at least 84 days since the 1970s beginning in May and lasting through September the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has declared that the dry season essentially lasts all year.MORE: Arsonist suspected in raging Pacific Palisades fire