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SAN FRANCISCO, July 27 (UPI) -- Firefighters Tuesday battled more than 130 western brushfires caused by an unusual three days of summer lightning storms from Yosemite to Oregon.
A spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said 3,500 lightning strikes were recorded in the Sierra Nevada mountains to east of the Cascades between Sunday and Monday.
Daniel Berlant said more than 4,000 lightning strikes had been recorded in California since Saturday afternoon, triggering scores of small wildfires.
"As thunderstorms move over the fires, they create very strong downdrafts, which fan the flames," he told the San Francisco Chronicle.
The largest wildfires were in Lassen County, where two lightning-cause blazes were not yet controlled. A 1,700-acre fire south of Doyle, Calif., destroyed a ranch home and was only 10 percent contained Monday, the Chronicle said.
Private meteorologist Mike Pechner said the storm clouds – which can produce dry lightning with little or no rain -- moved from Mexico into Arizona, California and Oregon's Crater Lake area.
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