California wildfires: weather turns as Bay Area burns and Trump declares disaster
- Fears of new fires overnight as residents prepare to flee
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An unwelcome change in the weather, with higher winds, temperatures and lightning that threatens to spark new wildfires was coming on Sunday to parched northern California, where firefighters have for nearly a week battled three huge “complexes” of fires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced tens of thousands to flee.
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