Fighting fire with fire (California wildfires)

167 views · Published 12 December 2017 · 1:37 · Indexed 21 October 2026

Channel: Civil Disturbia · 2017 · News & Politics

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Firefighting crews are lighting backfires in an attempt to burn away dry vegetation and contain the massive fire that has burned at least 362 square miles northwest of Los Angeles. 

California's biggest wildfire has burned through at least 362 square miles and has destroyed at least 683 homes. 

Thousands of homes are threatened as strong wind pushes the blaze through bone-dry land.

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