Update wildfire warnings for Californians’ safety

In California’s newly permanent wildfire season, 2018 has seen even bigger blazes than burned the state in the horrible fires of 2017.
The damages to forests and grasslands are huge, with the two combined fires known as Mendocino Complex near Clear Lake surpassing last year’s Thomas fire in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties as the biggest ever in the state’s history, more than 283,000 acres in 11 days. But the burning of brush and trees is not an entirely bad thing — and