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Fire on the Mountain
California Feels the Heat of Global Warming

By Daniel J. Weiss
October 24, 2007

Brave fire fighters - 20 dead
The horrific wildfires in southern California have already forced an estimated 500,000 people from their homes. More than 1,600 homes and buildings

have been destroyed by the wind whipped flames. Brave fire fighters valiantly battle the blaze against long odds to reduce the threat to relatively unscarred places. These fires, which range from northern Los Angeles County to the Mexican border, have produced so much smoke that they are visible in satellite pictures hundreds of miles from Earth. They are a terrible human tragedy.