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Blistering heat wave to fuel wildfire threat across western US through Monday
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A potentially life-threatening heat wave will continue to bake the western United States and raise the risk of wildfires into early week.
A large dome of high pressure will stay parked over the region, pumping dry, hot air northward in the process. As a result, temperatures will soar to dangerous and record-challenging levels through Monday
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