SAN FRANCISCO—Nearly 12,000 firefighters across California were battling major wildfires that continued to rage intensely on Friday, many of them around the heavily populated San Francisco Bay Area. The wildfires and wildfire complexes—clusters of large and small blazes—have caused at least five deaths, destroyed more than 500 structures and forced tens of thousands of evacuations. Statewide,...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 21, 2020 18:44 UTC