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8,000 Lightning Bolts Spark California Fires

44,000 acres burn in 700 blazes

By Peter Fearon, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 24, 2008 2:19 AM CDT

(Newser) – Thousands of lightning strikes over a wide swath of Northern California ignited more than 700 wildfires that have burned some 44,000 tinder-dry acres of grassland, brush and forest. Firefighters managed to protect most homes in almost all of the fires. The historically bad fire... Read full story »

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8,000 Lightning Bolts Spark California Fires

44,000 acres burn in 700 blazes

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