It's been a hot, dry and fiery summer for the residents of California.
The level of destruction from California wildfires is so bad that officials don't yet have a total count of destroyed homes, according to NBC News.
In the aftermath of all these wildfires, somebody has to figure out exactly what burned. It's painstaking and important work.
|Determining the extent of damage
Operating from a mobile command center just south of a 58-square-mile blaze, Fire Marshal Mike Horton recently led a team of 15 investigators, technicians, hazardous materials experts and others responsible for determining the extent and nature of the damages, ABC News reported.
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