"It's always kind of a wild card to see where the fire activity is going to be, whether it's going to be up North or down South," says Paul Lowenthal of the Santa Rosa Fire Department.
"Clearly there was a period of several years where a lot of the fire activity was in the northern part of the state. [...] now we've seen a little bit of a shift to more of the activity down South this time of year," says Lowenthal.
"The winds that we had in Northern California last night and this morning were actually part of the same fire weather regime that was happening in Southern California. It was this big high-pressure system sitting over the interior of the Western U.S.," said Associate Professor William Boos at UC Berkeley.
"The Franklin Fire has burned more than 3,000 acres, destroyed at least seven homes, and damaged at least eight more," according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
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