Published Apr 13, 2002 6:30 am : Updated Jan 31, 2009 5:28 pm
Fire season has come early to Southern California. The driest winter in a quarter-century is moving the official start of the fire season there up a month.
Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties begin the fire season next week. It establishes a heightened alert for extra staffing, increased public education and more equipment.
Officials say the nearly three and a-half million acres of Southern California land patrolled by state firefighters are drier than at any point since 1976, when records were first kept.
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