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The sight of a half dozen volunteers wheeling carts full of ice cold water bottles was a welcome sight.
Excessive-heat warnings were in effect for Southern California and up into the Central Valley. The heat was expected to spread into Northern California and could top 100 degrees in San Francisco Bay-area hills, although San Francisco probably would only have highs in the 70s and 80s, forecasters said.
On Wednesday afternoon, wildfires broke out in bone-dry brush in rural San Diego County and Castaic in the Santa Clarita Valley north of Los Angeles, where a mobile home park was evacuated. The risk of fire also could increase over the Labor Day weekend when crowds are expected to descend on wilderness areas to camp, hike or fish and a spark or an ember from an untended fire could set brush ablaze, authorities said.
Despite more than 160 projects to increase power supply and storage by 4,000 megawatts after outages two years ago, the the state’s power supply was partly crippled by the impact of the ongoing drought that has sapped a significant share of the state’s hydropower production as reservoir levels drop.
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