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Tens of thousands of people were told to evacuate Northern California on Wednesday... due to lightning-sparked wildfires that are blazing across the state amid a blistering heat wave.
Dozens of forest fires are raging across northern and central California, spreading at a rapid pace.
This comes one day after California's Governor Gavin Newsome declared a statewide emergency, saying the blazes were amplified by sustained high winds and the historic heat wave.
California's Death Valley saw the temperature top 54 degrees Celsius on Sunday.