The threat of lightning storms increases efforts to contain California fires Reuters

Maria Caspani

(Reuters)-Staff and officials are fighting a fire in northern California that has burned more than 190,000 acres of land in northern California, and they are preparing for the possibility of Sunday that a plume of smoke may be able to ignite More fires and lightning storms.

According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Dixie fire in Butte County, northern Sacramento, spread on Saturday and controlled only 21% as of Sunday morning https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents /2021/7/14 /Dixie Fire.

“The smoke column is very likely to form what we call spontaneous combustion (cloud),” fire behavior analyst Dennis Burn (Dennis Burn) in a video message posted at https://www.facebook.com/LassenNF/?ref=br_rs Said Larson National Forest’s Facebook (NASDAQ:) page.

Fires like the Dixie Fire and Oregon Piracy Fire https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/photos/ORFWF/2021-07-07-1033-Bootleg-Fire/related_files/pict20210625-113715-0.pdf, one The fire has blackened more than 400,000 acres of land. As of Sunday, 42% of the land has been controlled. Sometimes it produces its own weather, such as lightning storms.

On Saturday night, the Dixie fire merged with another nearby fire, and firefighters have been trying to control the fire that triggered the evacuation of multiple communities.

Fire officials said in the latest news that the authorities stated that they expect the Dixie fire to become very active again on Sunday, and the staff fighting the Bootleg fire in northern Oregon will face “the most” in the next few days. “Warm and driest” day. inciweb.nwcg.gov/photos/ORFWF/2021-07-07-1033-Bootleg-Fire/related_files/pict20210625-113715-0.pdf Sunday.

According to data from the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho, the Bootleg fire is one of more than 86 large wildfires that have occurred in 12 states in recent weeks. These wildfires have scorched more than 1.4 million acres ( More than 566,000 hectares).

The fires in the western United States marked the beginning of the wildfire season more severe than normal and coincided with the record-breaking high temperature bakeout in most parts of the region in recent weeks and the death of hundreds of people.

Scientists say that the frequency and intensity of wildfires are increasing, mainly due to the continuous increase in high temperature weather with symptoms of long-term drought and climate change.