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Airport Fire Burns Uncontrolled, Fueled By Dry Brush
Bishop, CA
Smoke from wildfire near Eastern Sierra Regional Airport outside of Bishop, California. (Credit: CAL FIRE San Bernardino/Inyo/Mono Unit)
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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