TUOLUMNE COUNTY – Fire crews are revealing new details about what happened during the devastating September Lightning Complex Fire.
At a meeting Monday, officials laid out how stretched resources were when the lightning storm swept across the state.
Crews were already deployed across California because of extreme fire weather. Over a two-day period, 26,000 lightning strikes sparked 157 fires across California. Of the 157 fires, 21 of them made up the fast-moving September Lightning Complex fire, which tore through the town of Chinese Camp…