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Forecasters had issued a rare, particularly dangerous fire weather warning across much of Southern California, as strong Santa Ana winds were expected to further dry an already parched landscape.

“What we do know is that we started the water year following record heat this summer and in early October that parched the landscape.”

Others looked parched but had a few avocados barely hanging on.

The rivers, in parts, are now completely dry and resemble a parched desert.

A sudden shutoff of water supplies has dried up the Kern River in Bakersfield, leaving thousands of dead fish on the parched riverbed.