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At least two dead as ‘unprecedented’ 450 wildfires scorch Louisiana
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0:42Now PlayingAt least two people have died in “unprecedented” wildfires that have ravaged Louisiana in recent weeks.
An elderly woman was pronounced dead Sunday after a brush fire spread to a shed in St. Tammany Parish, just north of New Orleans, and earlier this month, a man died in Franklinton when his home and surrounding property caught fire.
The blazes were just two of more than 450 wildfires that have scorched thousands of acres in southwest Louisiana in recent weeks during record-breaking temperatures and severe drought conditions.
“Wildfires this many and of this intensity are unprecedented,” Mike Strain, the commissioner of the Louisiana Agriculture and Forestry Department, told the Washington Post.
On average, the state deals with a total of 771 wildfires each year, or about two a day, data from the department shows.
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