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California wildfires burn through record 2M acres of land

By Mike Brest
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California wildfires burn through record 2M acres of land

Wildfires raging across California have broken a state record for most acreage burned in a calendar year.

Raging throughout Labor Day weekend, the infernos have destroyed more than 2 million acres of land, breaking the previous record set in 2018 when the Camp Fire killed at least 85 people in the town of Paradise.

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