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This time the fires came closer than they had in a long time. They are used to forest fires in California, especially in the dry hinterland, but this time even the first suburbs of the capital Sacramento had to be evacuated. A total of 11,000 people were taken from their homes when the “mosquito fire” spread uncontrollably outside the city in early September.

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