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  • California fires claim 6 lives, threaten thousands of homes

    Janie Har and Martha Mendoza, The Associated Press|Updated Aug 27, 2020

    Sky-darkening wildfires that took at least six lives and forced tens of thousands of people from their homes blazed throughout California Friday, Aug. 21, as firefighting resources strained under the vastness of the infernos authorities were trying to control. Three major complexes encompassing dozens of fires chewed through a combined 780 square miles (2,020 square kilometers) of forests, canyons and rural areas flanking San Francisco on three sides. Statewide, nearly 12,000...

  • Redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park

    Martha Mendoza, The Associated Press|Updated Aug 27, 2020

    When a massive wildfire swept through California's oldest state park recently, it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old and among the tallest living things on Earth, may finally have succumbed. But a reporter and photographer with The Associated Press hiked the renowned Redwood Trail at Big Basin Redwoods State Park Monday, Aug. 24, and confirmed most of the ancient redwoods had withstood the blaze. Among the survivors is one...