Fires burning at ‘full tilt’ across the Western US stretch resources

The Park Fire burns along a hillside Saturday near Lomo, Calif. It took only a week for the Park Fire to grow into the fifth-largest in California history, signaling the potential for a destructive wildfire season across the western United States. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times)

It took only a week for the Park fire north of Sacramento to grow into the fifth-largest in California history, signaling the potential for a destructive wildfire season across much of the western United States. Almost 50 other large or notable fires were burning throughout the region Wednesday, according to a New York Times tracker.

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