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Two of the three largest wildfires in California’s history continued burning through the state, where a recent barrage of blazes have scorched through more than 1 million acres, displaced more than 100,000 people, and killed seven.
Firefighters did receive some respite after dry lightning storms forecasted for the weekend spared the Bay Area. A highly unusual spate of dry lightning over the region had initially sparked the conflagrations that have stretched the state’s firefighting crews, and officials feared that the fresh round of storms on Sunday and Monday would stoke and feed the flames.
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