Over 12,000 firefighters battling 13 fires burning across state
Submitted by paula on Mon, 08/29/2016 - 1:46pm
Firefighters continue to fight 13 blazes across the state of California, which have now burned almost 209,000 acres. That is 326.5 square miles of land burned in the state from current fires, not counting those that have since been extinguished.
The burned area is larger than the City of New York.
The largest fire, the Soberanes Fire near Big Sur, has burned 92,314 acres as is now 60 percent contained.
Calaveras County's Willow Fire is the closest to South Lake Tahoe. It started on Saturday and has burned 450 acres and is 30 percent contained.
Temperatures across the state are lowering a bit, but conditions are still warm and dry through much of California.
-South Tahoe Now Staff Report
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