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San Jose Mercury News on 2020-08-20 19:31

Watch: Here’s what 10,800 Bay Area lightning strikes sparking 367 wildfires looked like from space

The weekend's freak lightning storms were only the ignition. Over the next 72 hours, hundreds of fires exploded across the Bay Area.

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