Hundreds of people have been evacuated as wildfires burn across thousands of acres in California.
An interactive map by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection shows where active fires are burning in 14 counties across the state. So far, more than 66,000 acres of land have been burned.The website said that there have been more than 270,000 emergency responses to deal with roughly 2,100 wildfires. Twelve structures have been destroyed while nine others have been damaged.
The second-largest fire, named the Sites Fire, is burning in Colusa County and has spanned nearly 9,000 acres.The third largest, the Aero Fire, is in Calaveras County and has burned more than 5,000 acres. These two fires are 0 percent contained. Each of the other active wildfires currently cover about 1,000 acres or fewer.
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