The blaze doubled in size in less than an hour after it started near a regional airport.
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The Airport Fire is the latest of many winter blazes to plague California this year. A pair of unusual winter wildfires last week near Los Angeles and Laguna Beach in Southern California burned several homes, spurred evacuations, and closed a portion of the iconic Pacific Coast Highway.
Another fire less than a month ago closed a section of California's famous Highway 1 as a fire burning near the Pacific Ocean prompted evacuations close to the state's Big Sur region.
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What airport is that?
Bishop Airport
Great….
Check out the Paradise fires. Looks more like a laser wiped out the town. Sheeple don’t understand how far they’ve gone with weather tech.
If heavy monsoon rains at Sierra, it would cause mudslide sometime in July or September, from Airport Fire, at Near Bishop from last February.