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Mojtaba Sadegh

A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Western fires are burning higher in the mountains at unprecedented rates

Mojtaba Sadegh, John Abatzoglou, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh