The California wildfire season is starting slowly, but the emergency agencies aren’t taking anything for granted. “Everybody who has been through these is on edge.”
SAN FRANCISCO—California is off to one of its slowest wildfire seasons in years, giving firefighters and fire-prone communities a much-needed break after last year’s huge and destructive infernos.
As of Aug. 18, just 24,579 wildland acres have burned so far this year compared with 621,784 at the same time last year, according to the most recent statistics by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. Emergency officials attribute the quieter year, in part, to a wet, cool spring that has tamped...
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