数千名加州消防队员周二继续勇敢面对严酷的考验天气他们试图在全州范围内扑灭24起野火。
加州林业和消防部门，也就是加州消防局，表示自8月15日以来，该州已经有650处野火烧毁了超过125万英亩的土地。
该机构在新闻发布会上说:“大量的土地被烧毁，这使得火灾的总面积超过了特拉华州。”
加州消防局表示，加州有14，000名消防队员在与大火搏斗。据加州消防局称，截至周二，大多数活跃的火灾发生在该州的中部和北部地区。
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2020年8月24日，加利福尼亚州米德尔顿附近，一架直升机和机组人员正在放水扑灭LNU闪电复合体大火。
该机构称，火灾发生在几个主要城市附近，包括旧金山、洛杉矶和萨克拉门托。加州消防局表示，LNU闪电中心和加州州立大学闪电中心的火灾现在分别在加州史上最大的野火名单中排名第二和第三。
到目前为止，已经有七人死于火灾，超过1400座建筑被摧毁。该州受影响的地区包括加利福尼亚的森林。
上周，许多人担心野火会沿着北加州海岸蔓延会摧毁许多古老的红杉。据美联社报道，幸运的是，周一，当大火席卷著名的红杉小径时，大多数古树经受住了火焰的考验。大盆地红杉州立公园是加州最古老的州立公园，也是2000年前树木的家园。这些也是地球上最高的生物。
马尔西奥·何塞·桑切斯/美联社
2020年8月24日，加州邦尼市，一辆警车在被捷克大学八月闪电中心大火烧毁的森林下。
加州消防局宣布，一些县的疏散命令，如圣克拉拉和纳帕，已经减少到警告，但该机构警告那里的居民仍然有一些危险，因为消防队员正在监测该州的雷击。
该部门说:“孤立的雷暴仍有可能在北加州和内华达山脉的上部。”“由于很少或根本没有降雨，可能会有闪电，因此发出了红旗警告。加州的其他地区将会恢复温暖干燥的气候模式。”
California wildfires have killed 7, left over 1.25M acres burned
Thousands of California firefighters Tuesday continued to brave harshweatherconditions in their attempt to fight over two dozen wildfires across the state.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, aka Cal Fire, said that 650 wildfires have now burned over 1.25 million acres in the state since Aug. 15.
"The significant acreage burned makes the fires collectively larger than the state of Delaware," the agency said in a news release.
Cal Fire said there were 14,000 firefighters battling the blazes across California. As of Tuesday, the majority of the active fires were located in central and northern regions of the state, according to Cal Fire.
A helicopter and crew releases water to extinguish a section of the LNU Lightning Complex Fire near Middletown, Calif., Aug. 24, 2020.
The fires are close to several major cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento, the agency said. The LNU Lightning Complex and the CSU Lightning Complex fires are now ranked No. 2 and No. 3 respectively on the list of all-time biggest wildfires in California, Cal Fire said.
So far,there have been seven fatalities related to the fires, and more than 1,400 structures have been destroyed, the department said. Among the parts of the state that have been affected are California's forests.
Last week, many feared that the wildfire burning alongside Northern California's coastwould destroy many of the historic old-growth redwoods. Luckily, most of the ancient trees withstood the flames as the massive wildfire swept through the renowned Redwood Trail on Monday, the Associated Press reported. Big Basin Redwoods State Park is California's oldest state park and home to trees as old as 2,000 years. These are also among the tallest living things on Earth.
A police vehicle is seen under a forest being burned by the CZU August Lightning Complex Fire, Aug. 24, 2020, in Bonny Doon, Calif.
Cal Fire announced that evacuation orders for parts of some counties, such as Santa Clara and Napa, were reduced to warnings, but the agency warned residents there is still some danger, as firefighters are monitoring lighting strikes in the state.
"Isolated thunderstorms are still possible in the upper portion of Northern California and the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range," the department said. "A Red Flag Warning has been issued due to the possibility of lightning with little to no rain. The rest of California will experience a return to a warm and dry weather pattern."
