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Eastern Fresno County saw the highest concentration of the lightning, with more than 1,000 strikes in just three hours Monday, when at least five brush fires ignited, according to the California ...
Lightning strikes started 15 new fires overnight in Idaho, the U.S. Forest Service told Boise’s KBOI-TV, but several had already been extinguished by Thursday afternoon.
Lightning-sparked wildfires swept across Northern California on Wednesday, scorching huge swaths of sun-parched land and leading to orders for thousands to evacuate, officials said. ...
Evacuation orders were issued Monday in Northern California as a group of four blazes ignited in Plumas County, with lightning suspected as the cause, authorities said.. Officials were battling a ...
The first fires started around 3:30 am on August 16, 2020, the result of a thunderstorm that produced close to 11,000 bolts of lightning and started hundreds of fires throughout California. [1] [3] These lightning strikes initially started fires separately known as the Warnella Fire, near Davenport and the Waddell Fire, near Waddell Creek, as ...
Thunderstorms rumbled over northern California again on Monday, but the fire-ravaged region around San Francisco Bay was largely spared from a new onslaught of incendiary lightning strikes like ...
On the night of September 9, a series of thunderstorms moved through California, generating more than 1,100 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes across the state by the following morning. [21] Over 200 strikes occurred in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. [22] On September 10, three lightning-ignited fires were discovered in Sequoia ...
Firefighters made progress Saturday against California's largest wildfire of the year ahead of expected thunderstorms that could unleash fire-starting lightning and erratic winds and erode ...