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California Wildfire Update

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KQED

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.2726 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Wildfires have now burned a record 2 million acres in California this year. Meanwhile, as the extreme heat continues, PG&E is starting power shutoffs for many of its customers. We'll get the latest on the fires burning across the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQBD Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.

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Coming up on Forum, we get the latest on the Creek Fire and other fires that erupted over Labor Day weekend.

1:12.5

More than 2 million acres of California have already burned so far this year, and it's still early in the fire season.

1:14.8

Then hundreds of protesters gathered in Louisville Saturday during the Kentucky Derby to

1:19.2

demand justice for Brianna Taylor, who was killed by police during a drug raid on her home

1:23.5

in March.

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New York Times correspondent, Rukmini Kalamaki, has uncovered new details about

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the raid and about Brianna Taylor's life through extensive interviews and reviews and reviews

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of documents and recordings. We'll learn more next on Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Record heat, dry conditions and high winds fueled intense wildfires over the weekend, strain the state's electrical grid, and force the Forest Service to close several national forests. The most ferocious wildfire has been the creek fire burning northeast of Fresno.

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