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Each year, some 45,000 wildfires scorch 1 million acres of the region, which spans 13 states.

Eliza fled the scorch of Riverside for the Santa Barbara coast, where she died, in 1898.

Wildfires scorch thousands of acres in mountain communities of San Bernardino County near Lake Arrowhead and in the Angeles National Forest north of Glendora.

The announcements came as a weeklong heat wave continued to scorch Southern California, causing “dangerously hot conditions” and temperatures that hovered around triple digits even late into the night.

Cycle the heat off and on so as not to scorch the chowder.