[NBCNEWS] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, marked a grim milestone Sunday as the number of acres burned during a record-setting wildfire year surpassed 4 million, officials said.The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, didn’t provide an exact amount of land that had been scorched in 2020 but said in a daily statewide summary that more than 8,200 fires have burned "well over" 4 million acres.
Annual statistics from the department dating back to 1987 show that 2020 has more than doubled the previous record.
As many as 20,000 firefighters, some coming from as far as Israel, have responded to scores of major fires across the state this year. Thirty-one people have died.
The largest, most destructive blazes have occurred since mid-August, when thousands of lightning strikes in Northern California sparked dozens of fires across the region, including the largest wildfire in state history, the nearly-1 million acre August Complex fire that is burning across six counties.
Cal Fire said Sunday that the blaze has killed one person and destroyed 159 structures. It is 51 percent contained.
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Bay Area, thousands of firefighters continued battling a blaze that roared through wine country last Sunday amid high temperatures and powerful winds. More than 36,000 people remained under mandatory evacuation orders in Sonoma and Napa counties on Sunday, said Cal Fire Deputy Chief Jonathan Cox.