More than 3 million acres have burned in California this wildfire season. The previous record in a single season was 1.7 million, two years ago.
Towns are being decimated across California, Oregon and Washington \u2014 and firefighting resources are maxed out, as NPR's Kirk Siegler reports from Boise, Idaho.
In California, NPR's Lauren Sommer reports on an effort to fight fire with fire \u2014 something some Native American tribes have been doing for a long time.
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