With ash from a Santa Barbara, California fire clouding the sky, the sun gave the sky a dark orange color, almost like a permanent sunset.

加利福尼亚州圣巴巴拉市，一场大火扬起的灰烬遮蔽了天空。在阳光的照射下，天空呈现出昏暗的橘色，酷似一幕永不消失的日落场景。

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Last month, a costly fire swept around Lake Tahoe, on the border of Nevada and California.

上个月，一场损失巨大的火灾席卷了内华达和加州边境的泰和湖区。

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At last firemen have put out a big forest fire in California.

消防队员们终于扑灭了加利福尼亚的一场森林大火。

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A smaller fire northeast of the California capital,Sacramento, burned 60 structures Sunday.

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Some fire chiefs in California say that residents should always be encouraged to evacuate, but Naomi Brown, from the Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council, says installing effective early warning systems is the key.

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Just a quick note to share a California fire story which has not yet been told, about some amazing heroes who saved my grandma and hundreds of other elderly and disabled people in Poway, California, today.

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Mr. Gary, former chief of the Livermore-Pleasanton fire department in California, says fire departments never have been required to develop precise data.

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But when I heard the news of this one I immediately thought back to almost exactly a year ago, when Scott Evans De Kraai entered a salon in Seal Beach, California and opened fire.

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