get_wildfires

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Active California wildfires, flagged when close to a major highway. Data: the interagency WFIGS current-wildfire feed (NIFC) - name, size in acres, percent contained, discovery date. Points are each fire's ORIGIN, not its perimeter: a large fire can affect roads far from this point. Refresh: 5-minute cache; size/containment typically update once or twice a day. Small, fast-moving local fires may appear in CHP incident logs (get_incidents, type "FIRE-Report of Fire") before this feed has them. Filters: - near_route (e.g. "I-5", "101") - only fires within ~10 miles of that highway's corridor line. - center "lat,lon" with radius_km - fires around a place, regardless of highway. Without either, every active CA fire is returned, each carrying a `near_highways` list of major corridors within ~10 miles (empty = not near a covered major highway; it may still affect local roads). This tool does NOT know about road closures caused by fires - cross-check get_incidents and get_lane_closures for the affected area.