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NEWS ABOUT: Chico

Chico stories: 1 news summaries

 8,000 Lightning Bolts
 Spark California Fires 

44,000 acres burn in 700 blazes

Jun 24, 08 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 season has been spurred by... More »

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California • lightning • wildfires • National Weather Service • Chico • California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection • Shasta-Trinity National Forest

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