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In addition to temperatures above 40 degrees, sixty fires affected 333,000 hectares. There is a civilian casualty in California.
It was 42 degrees in the early evening in Los Angeles, California, 44 degrees in Phoenix (Arizona), 43 degrees in Las Vegas (Nevada) … The American West was in prey on Friday, July 6, at a record heat, stoking dozens of mbadive fires that required the evacuation of hundreds of people. 19659004] "Broad fires spread across the country, from Florida to Alaska" with "currently sixty large fires that consumed more than 333,000 hectares" stipulated Friday on his the National Interagency Fire Prevention Center (NIFC), while temperatures in some places were well above 40 degrees.
Twenty of these fires burned in Alaska, seven in New Mexico, four in California, eight in the Colorado, others in Nevada, Arizona or the south of the country (Texas and Florida).
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The California firefighting agency, Calfire, reported on Twitter that the Klamathon fire in Siskiyou County, near the Oregon border, caused a civilian casualty that was in the process of to be identified. The circumstances of his death were not specified
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Mandatory evacuations were in place, particularly in the Napa Valley wine region or in southern California near San Diego, where California governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency on Friday night because of the so-called fire of "West Fire" . He declared himself Friday and spread quickly. He has already destroyed houses, threatened others, and forced the closing of roads, according to the declaration of state of emergency of the governor.
The scorching temperatures which beat several historical records, in particular to Los Angeles Friday, complicating the work of the authorities.
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Already 1.17 million hectares have gone up in smoke in the United States since the beginning of the year, more than the last two years at the same time but less than three years ago when more than 1.25 million hectares had already been consumed by the flames.
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