One of several wildfires raging in California temporarily closed a section of the state's coastal highway.
Some of the wildfires' smallest victims are the animals caught in the fire zone.
You didn't take this long getting started after the wildfires in Oakland, did you?
But whereas Hurricane Katrina's victims were mostly poor people, wildfires mainly affect the rich.
Back-to-back summers of devastating droughts, record heat waves and raging wildfires are clear evidence of this.
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But 600 miles west in Texas a drought was taking hold and wildfires raged.
About 1, 000 square miles burned over the weekend, as wind pushed wildfires across the Texas panhandle.
Earlier this summer, two separate helicopter accidents killed six people while they were fighting wildfires.
Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods -- all are now more frequent and more intense.
"Excitement is one of the big ones for wildfires, " he tells the BBC News website.
The size of deserts would increase, along with the frequency and intensity of wildfires.
Twenty miles away, wildfires moved into remote Angeles National Forest terrain, where 80 acres burned.
This is done through wind-tunnel experiments and analysis of controlled burns and naturally occurring wildfires.
The lower end of the range could cause more intense hurricanes, droughts, wildfires and flooding, Schneider said.
Unseasonably hot weather and dry conditions mean southern California is at particular risk from wildfires at present.
On the job for 19 years, Desousa said this is the worst series of wildfires he's seen.
The goal, then, is to encourage landowners to do more to prevent wildfires from starting and spreading.
Colorado wildfires had consumed 181, 426 acres by Wednesday afternoon, according to the Colorado Division of Emergency Management.
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Environmentalists say the number of personnel employed to spot wildfires has been slashed by over a half.
That Greedy Lying Bastard message is dramatized with graphic footage of lightning storms, floodwaters, wildfires and drought-barren fields.
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More than 8, 400 personnel, 578 fire engines, and 79 helicopters are operating on wildfires around the United States.
Meanwhile, arson investigations were under way in Orange and Riverside counties in connection with some of the wildfires.
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As far as worst-case scenarios, I thought of earthquakes, wildfires, mudslides and movie-star houses cascading into the ocean.
The others were in 2008 and 2002, another highly destructive year for wildfires in Colorado and the Southwest.
Second, hit by the end of the dotcom boom and tourism-destroying wildfires, Colorado slumped into recession in 2001.
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An unseasonably dry March has contributed to wildfires spreading, despite the cold weather.
In 2011, when wildfires raged across much of Texas, 35, 574 fires burned 4.7 million acres, according to the agency.
The connection between climate change and wildfires has become a bit more certain.
Ms. ANDREWS: Some have already been moved to Texas and Oklahoma for the wildfires that have been going there.
There also was some concern about wildfires and convective storms that produce tornadoes, thunderstorms and other undesirable weather events.
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