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Firefighters monitor a backfire while battling the Ranch Fire, part of the Mendocino Complex Fire near Ladoga, California, Aug. 7, 2018. The years with the most acres burned by wildfires have some of the hottest temperatures, an Associated Press analysis of fire and weather data found. As human-caused climate change has warmed the world over the past 35 years, the land consumed in flames has more than doubled. (Noah Berger/AP Photo, file)

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As temperatures rise in the U.S. West, so do the flames.

By Associated Press August 19, 2018