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California wildfire crisis escalates as extreme winds fan flames
California's wildfire crisis escalated on Tuesday as strong winds fanned the Dixie Fire, driving flames across the state.
A separate, smaller blaze was also driven into a rural mountain community, prompting widespread precautionary power blackouts.
Homes, an elementary school and a post office in El Dorado County were reduced to ash as the fire scorched land, leading to the evacuation of thousands of people.
California Governor Gavin Newsom believes "record-breaking triple-digit temperatures" and the "realities of climate change" are behind the devastating blazes, which continue to burn.