Officials were bracing for an intense fire season because of California’s drought conditions. But experts say the heat wave — likely to be the longest and hottest on record for September — is setting the stage for fires to spread much faster.
, which ballooned to nearly 24,000 acres with 5% containment as of Thursday evening and has prompted officials to expand evacuation orders and issue increasingly dire warnings.
Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency Thursday for Riverside, El Dorado and Placer counties due to the Fairview and Mosquito fires. “To have a heat wave like this occurring in September is unusually late, especially with these high temperatures, and it’s really problematic for fires because it’s drier now across the state than it was in July when we’d normally see the hottest temperatures of the year,” she said.
“In recent years, we’ve seen Santa Ana fires in November and even in December, which again is an impact of climate change,” Kolden said. At least nine people have lost their lives due to wildfires so far this season, including two killed in the Fairview fire and four killed in, which sparked in the Klamath National Forest near California’s border with Oregon in July and burned more than 60,000 acres.
Temperatures are expected to be in the 90s in most of Southern California on Friday and in the 100s all the way from Long Beach to downtown Los Angeles and around Beverly Hills, according to National Weather Service forecaster Carol Smith.
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