Wildfires Force Thousands to Evacuate, Worsen Air Quality across Bay Area

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🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Wildfires raging across northern California forced thousands to flee their homes Wednesday morning. The most urgent situation unfolded in Vacaville, where a group of fires called the LNU Lightning Complex more than doubled in size overnight and destroyed over 50 homes and threatened nearly 2,000 more. Along with hot temperatures and low humidity, the fires are in part due to a “historic lightning siege,” which, according to Cal Fire chief Jeremy Rahn, included about 10,849 lightening strikes and caused over 367 fires across the state. Smoke from the fires has resulted in poor air quality across the Bay Area bringing the air quality index in San Francisco and Oakland to levels considered unhealthy for sensitive groups. We’ll get the latest on the region’s wildfires. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.6	Welcome to Forum.
1:02.7	We are experiencing fires, the likes of which we haven't seen in many, many years.
1:08.6	That is a resource challenge.
1:15.6	That was California Governor Gavin Newsom yesterday and the state is fighting at least 367 fires after lightning struck close to 11,000 times over the course of a few days amid an intense heat wave.
1:23.6	A Vacaville-based PG&E worker has died while helping first responders in the LNU
1:28.8	lightning complex of fires, which have burned more than 124,000 acres and destroyed 105 structures
1:35.5	in Sonoma, Lake, Napa, and Solano counties. Coming up on Forum, we'll get an update on the fires
1:40.5	raging across the Bay Area, and we want to hear from you. That's all next after this news.
1:48.6	Welcome to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny.
1:50.9	Along with hot temperatures, wind and low humidity, wildfires raging across Northern California
1:57.0	are in part due to a historic lightning siege, which, according to Cal Fire Chief Jeremy
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