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California crews are battling four wildfires amid a triple-digit heatwave in parts of the state.

The worst damage was in Riverside County in southern California, where the Rabbit Fire has razed nearly 8,000 acres.

It left a woman with severe burns and she had to be airlifted to hospital, CalFire told the Los Angeles Times.

The blazes broke out over the weekend, prompting

Hot weather and windy, dry conditions have led Pacific Gas and Electric to enact public safety power shutoffs in parts of the Bay Area and Northern California to help prevent wildfires. Shortly before 2 a.m. Wednesday, PG&E began shutting off power in small portions of Napa County and seven other Northern California counties: Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Shasta, Tehama, and Yolo. Two tribal

3 people were killed fighting a California wildfire after two helicopters collided Three people were killed while fighting a California wildfire after two helicopters collided Sunday afternoon, according to state authorities. First responders were initially responding to a structure fire in Cabazon, Calif., when the blaze spread to nearby vegetation. Cal Fire, the state department that

Adam Probolsky and his wife and kids jumped into a rental car packed with luggage cinched by bungee cords as towering flames grew closer to their picturesque Maui resort. It was Wednesday morning, Aug. 9. They had one goal — to get off the island. The day before, high winds knocked out power at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa. Then, as night fell, the massive wildfire spread. “We could