A firefighter has died of an illness while assigned to one of California's largest wildfires, in a season that has seen blazes destroy thousands of buildings and force towns to evacuate. Wildfires have burned over 3,000 square miles in the state this year.
FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2021 file photo, trees burned by the Caldor Fire smolder in Eldorado National Forest, Calif. An unidentified firefighter has died of an illness while assigned to one of California's largest wildfires, authorities said Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021, marking the first death in a season that has seen blazes destroy thousands of buildings and force entire towns to flee.
The Dixie Fire began in mid-July in the northern Sierra Nevada and is the second-largest wildfire in recorded state history. It has burned nearly 1,400 square miles in five counties and three national parks and forests, according to Cal Fire. It was the first reported death among the more than 7,000 wildfires that have hit California this year in a season marked by drought and hot, dry weather that has turned timber, brush and grasslands into tinder throughout the U.S. West. California’s fires have burned over 3,000 square miles .California has experienced increasingly larger and deadlier wildfires in recent years as climate change has made the West much warmer and drier over the past 30 years.
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