California's 'extreme' Klamathon Wildfire has tripled in size

The remains of a car stand in front of a destroyed home in the aftermath of the Holiday Fire on July 7, 2018 in Goleta, California. — (Image credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

California's Klamathon Fire "exploded" to cover 30,000 acres by Sunday morning, tripling in size from Friday night and crossing the state line into Oregon. The blaze has already killed one person and destroyed 15 buildings. It is just 25 percent contained as of Sunday, and authorities said the Klamathon blaze is exhibiting "extreme fire behavior with movement in multiple directions."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.