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California Wildfires

The last thing the president said about California's catastrophic wildfires was in mid-August, when he blamed the state for not keeping its forest floors clean.
The San Francisco Bay Area was engulfed by an eerie, sepia-toned cloud of smoke and fog on Wednesday.