A major thoroughfare was closed and mandatory evacuations were ordered on California’s Central Coast on Monday as powerful winds swept across the state, fueling new fires in the state’s parched wildlands.
showed towering flames burning toward the highway. Parks, beaches and campgrounds were evacuated as the fire quickly spread.
The fire ignited as a large swath of the state was placed under a red flag warning, with fire-friendly weather predicted by forecasters. Power companies across the state shut off electricity in an effort to prevent new blazes from starting. Nearly 2.5 million acres have burned in California in 2021, making it one of the most explosive years on record, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Experts have attributed the state’s increasingly volatile wildfire seasons to climate change and decades of fire suppression policies that allowed the state’s wildlands to become dangerously overgrown.
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