California firefighters are still tackling the "Post Fire", the state's biggest blaze of the year so far, just north of Los Angeles. In the western United States, recent wet winters have prompted the rapid growth of vegetation, which experts warn could prove dangerous as it dries out in the weeks and months ahead.
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00:42The reason we didn't open any evac centers is because we didn't evacuate any people that were residents in here.
00:48So it's not a very populated area, but it's adjacent to a very urban interface.
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01:11The winter is being wet. Two years we've had very wet winters.
01:15What that does is it causes a lot of grass to grow. A lot of shrubs get happy because they have the moisture that they need.
01:20But in the summertime, we don't get rain here and it dries out.
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