FILE PHOTO: A firefighter carries a hose while defending the Mount Wilson observatory during the Bobcat Fire in Los Angeles, California, U.S., September 17, 2020. REUTERS/Ringo Chiu
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Five weeks after California erupted in deadly wildfires supercharged by record heat and howling winds, crews battling flames pushed on Monday to consolidate their gains as forecasts called for a return of blistering, gusty weather.
California already has lost far more landscape to wildfires this summer than during any previous entire year, with scores of conflagrations - many sparked by catastrophic lightning storms - scorching some 3.4 million acres since mid-August.
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