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Giant California fire fits a pattern: Rising risks, human causes
Northern California’s Park Fire, now the largest active fire in the United States, has scorched nearly 370,000 acres since it began on July 24 – signaling hard lessons facing vulnerable regions of the American West. Thousands of residents have been …