Firefighters by the thousands are battling the Golden state's largest wildfire of 2022, as thousands more evacuate their homes.
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California crews continued battling the state’s largest wildfire of 2022 on Thursday despite a setback in containment levels.
The Mosquito Fire ignited Sept. 6 and ballooned to just over 100 square miles Thursday in Placer and El Dorado counties. The massive blaze surpassed the size of the McKinney Fire that burned more than 93 square miles in California, in July and August.
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I live in reno and this is bullshit.i can’t breath
stay safe