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- Since Aug. 15, more than 500 fires of varying sizes have burned throughout California, scorching 1.2 million acres.
- President Donald Trump on Saturday issued a major disaster declaration to provide federal assistance.
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Fire officials, meanwhile, have struggled to get enough resources to fight the biggest fires because so many blazes are burning around the state.
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SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Three massive wildfires chewed through parched Northern California landscape Sunday as firefighters raced to dig breaks and make other preparations ahead of a frightening weather system. That system was packing high winds and more of the lightning that sparked the huge blazes and scores of other fires around the state, putting nearly a quarter-million people under evacuation orders and warnings.
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