Fire Season Strikes Early in California

by David Gorn, NPR

Firefighters are battling hundreds of wildfires across California. Lightning strikes sparked an estimated 800 blazes, and many of those fires are still burning out of control. The biggest one is in the Big Sur area south of Monterey, where 19,000 acres have burned.

David Gorn reports from member station KQED.

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• Morning Edition, June 27, 2008