But the acres burned by high-severity fires — when flames explode out of control with extreme temperatures, incinerating trees rather than simply clearing out dead vegetation — have increased thirtyfold.
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Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
3 July 2026
And sometimes the physical act of clearing out resets more than just the space.
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