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Extreme heat in the summer and fall desiccated shrubs and grasses on hillsides, they said, enabling those fuels to burn more intensely once ignited.

For others, they’ll begin the expensive and isolating work of reestablishing in a desiccated community.

Severe fire weather is being fed in part by desiccated vegetation.

Many of the lemon trees remain, as if untouched; others were wiped out completely, the hills where they stood blackened and desiccated.

Remnants of desiccated hay crunched underfoot, and the sun-baked soil was fragmented with deep cracks.