Not even soaking rain can ease fire risk in a California hit by record heat, dry landscape

A summer of drought, extreme heat and deadly wildfires will end with much-needed rain this week in parts of California, but it is unlikely to douse the threat of wind-driven wildfires this fall in a state scarred by record-setting heat waves and bone-dry landscapes.

Not even soaking rain can ease fire risk in a California hit by record heat, dry landscape

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