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California's largest wildfire this year has been significantly tamed as the state's initially fierce fire season has, at least temporarily, fallen into a relative calm.

加州今年最大的山火已得到明显控制，该州最初猛烈的山火季节至少暂时趋于相对平静。

The Park Fire was 53% contained Monday after scorching nearly 1,738 square kilometers in several northern counties, destroying 637 structures and damaging 49 as it became the state's fourth-largest wildfire on record.

周一，公园大火被控制了 53%，此前该州北部几个县的面积已接近 1,738 平方公里，摧毁了 637 座建筑，造成 49 座建筑受损，成为该州有记录以来的第四大山火。

The Park Fire was allegedly started by arson on July 24 in a wilderness park outside the Central Valley city of Chico. It spread northward with astonishing speed in withering conditions as it climbed the western slope of the Sierra Nevada.

据称，公园大火是 7 月 24 日在中央谷地城市奇科郊外的一个荒野公园内因纵火而起。它在恶劣的天气条件下以惊人的速度向北蔓延，爬上了内华达山脉的西坡。

July was marked by extraordinary heat in most of California, where back-to-back wet winters left the state flush with grasses and vegetation that dried and became ready to burn. Wildfires erupted up and down the state.

7 月，加州大部分地区都出现了异常高温，连续的潮湿冬季使该州的草和植被都枯萎了，随时可能燃烧。山火在全州各地爆发。

The first half of August has been warmer than average but not record-breaking, according to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

加州大学洛杉矶分校的气候科学家丹尼尔·斯温表示，8 月上半月的气温高于平均水平，但并未破纪录。

"We're still seeing pretty regular ignitions and we're still seeing significant fire activity, but the pace has slowed and the degree of that activity, the intensity, rates of initial spread, are not as high as they were." he said in an online briefing Friday.

“我们仍然看到相当频繁的火灾，我们仍然看到重大的火灾活动，但速度已经放缓，活动的程度、强度、初始蔓延速度都没有以前那么高了，”他在周五的一次在线简报会上说。

"Nonetheless, vegetation remains drier than average in most places in California and will likely remain so nearly everywhere in California for the foreseeable future," he said. "I would expect to see another resurgence in wildfire activity then across a broad swath of the West, including California."

“尽管如此，加州大部分地区的植被仍然比平均水平要干燥，而且在可预见的未来，加州几乎所有地方的植被可能都会如此，”他说。“我预计，包括加州在内的西部大片地区将再次出现野火活动。”

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