Wind-driven brush fires that burned on New York’s Long Island over the weekend, injuring two firefighters and sending large smoke plumes into the air, appear to have been started by people making s’mores in their backyard. With that in mind, AccuWeather meteorologists are warning that a strengthening storm will generate a vast field of strong winds to nearly a million square miles of the US later this week. The combination of powerful gusts and dry brush will create a recipe for fast-moving wildfires, especially over the southern Rockies and Plains.

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