Hundreds have been evacuated after wildfires destroy more than 90,000 acres across 3 states

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/us/wildfires-california-oregon-colorado/index.html

 

By Christina Walker, Sarah Moon and Joe Sutton, CNN

Updated 1:52 AM ET, Fri August 14, 2020

 

Firefighters across three Western states are battling wildfires that have destroyed more than 90,000 acres.
Evacuation orders have been issued in areas threatened by the Lake Fire and Ranch2 Fire in California's Los Angeles County; the Mosier Creek Fire in central Oregon; and the Pine Gulch, Grizzly Creek and Cameron Peak fires in Colorado.

More than 100 homes were evacuated in the rugged hills near Lake Hughes in LA County as the blaze exceeded 11,000 acres. Three structures have been destroyed, and more than 5,000 others are threatened, according to the LA County Fire Department.

The fire was 5% contained on Thursday evening, a day after it was reported, fire officials reported.


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From worsening drought to "weather whiplash" that brings wetter wet seasons and drier dry seasons, climate change is hitting California harder than almost anywhere else in America, CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller said. Wildfires are one of the most apparent, and destructive, examples of this. Numerous studies have tied increasing CO2 emissions and climbing temperatures to increased acreage of burning across the Western US, particularly in California.

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tags: extreme weather, severe weather