Iran Press/ America: More than 771,000 acres have burned so far, an area greater than the state of Rhode Island, California’s governor Gavin Newsom said at a press conference Friday.
He said the scope and ferocity of the fires has stretched thin the state’s capacity to respond in an “unprecedented moment” in California’s history, adding that he anticipated mutual aid support coming from Arizona, Oregon, Washington state, Texas, Nevada and elsewhere.
Two growing groups of fires — the S.C.U. Lightning Complex and the L.N.U. Lightning Complex — rank as the seventh-largest and 10th-largest fires in recent state history, Gov. Gavin Newsom said.
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