Wildfires Throughout CA Burn Tinder-Dry Brush, Forest, Force Thousands To Evacuate

SHASTA, Calif. (AP) — Even a reservoir didn’t provide safe harbor from erratic California wildfires.
With flames exploding around Whiskeytown Lake, an effort to save boats at a Northern California marina by untying them from moorings and pushing them to safety, wasn’t swift enough to spare them all.
Dozens of charred, twisted and melted boats were among the losses counted Thursday at Oak Bottom Marina as firefighters continued to battle flames.
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