While more major blazes continued to wreak havoc in California,neighbouring Oregon bore the latest brunt of bushfires plaguing much of the US west.
It's the latest in what has become a lengthy list of tragedies at events where flammable objects are used to reveal the soon-to-be-born child’s biological sex.
California Governor Gavin Newsom appeals for help from other US states as well as Canada and Australia,with the worst of the blazes burning in and around the San Francisco Bay Area,where more than 200,000 people have been told to flee their homes.
California Governor Gavin Newsom is about to make the call to"the world's best wildfire-fighters".
A series of large fires are raging through Northern California,threatening thousands of homes and blackening the skies near San Francisco.
Fires stretch from wine country to the Santa Cruz Mountains,moving with ferocious speed amid an intense heatwave that also has brought rolling blackouts.
The fire started on Friday afternoon in Cherry Valley,south-west of the San Bernardino National Forest,and by Sunday had spread across 8000 hectares.
For the LA-based,Nashville-raised star,the images of Australia burning this summer felt deeply personal as well as urgently political.
California is still counting the cost of two horror fire seasons,prompting similar debates to those beginning in Australia about how to beat future fires.
Sydney and much of NSW has sweltered and been choked by dust and smoke,with little if any sign of rain relief before the next bouts of heat arrive.
The man who commanded California’s response to the state’s worst ever bushfire says climate change has caused a dangerous “new normal”.