California contends with early-season 'mini outbreak' of multiple wildfires

Multiple wildfires gained momentum this weekend across California in an early-season appetizer of what might be in store later this summer.

"This is not a peak-season fire situation," Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said at a Monday webinar. "This is more of an episodic or wind-drive, little mini outbreak of fires."

The 15,610-acre Post Fire, which began on Saturday in Los Angeles County, led to multiple evacuation orders and...