Airport Fire Burns Uncontrolled, Fueled By Dry Brush

The Airport Fire, fueled by wind and dry brush ignited Wednesday near a regional airport just outside Bishop, California. The fire burned 1,800 acres in about seven hours – more than three football fields every minute — on Wednesday and was completely uncontained Wednesday night. It is now the state's biggest fire of 2022.

(LA Times $, AP, KOLO, USA Today, KEYT; Climate Signals background: Wildfires)

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