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Smoke blankets the city and the Pacific Ocean resulting from the Gap fire as more than 1,000 wildfires continue burning across about 680 square miles of central and northern California, on July 3, 2008, near Goleta, Calif. - Photos For Thought Last week, President Bush declared a state of emergency for the entire state of California in response to the hundreds of fires burning since dry lightning storms crossed the state on June 20. Making matters worse for the more than 19,000 firefighters from 42 states battling the California wildfires, drought is wicking moisture from the vegetation which leads fire experts to fear a possible repeat of the firestorms of 2003 and 2007 that destroyed thousands of homes in southern California. (Getty)
Unprecedented flooding of ‘Biblical’ proportions. Hundreds of wildfires started by lightning…and made worse by drought…. - Photos For Thought
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