Wildfires

Wildfires - USA

A wildfire near Corona, California, is threatening at least 300 homes as 335 firefighters work to quell it, state fire officials say. The "Highway Fire" was incinerating 300 acres in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, early Sunday, and emergency officials have evacuated many residents, said Fire Captain Mike Mohler.

Wildfires that raged since Saturday along Blue Mountain in Carbon County, Pennsylvania have been slowed, a state fire official said Sunday night. Wildfires on the mountain had spread to 400 acres Sunday, Kern said earlier in the day, although the blazes were about 75 percent contained. The areas of active burning had been limited to the top and bottom of Blue Mountain, he said. No injuries have been reported, and no structures have been damaged or threatened, Kern said. About 120 firefighters battled the blazes during the weekend.

A wildfire that consumed more than 4,000 acres near Warroad in northern Minnesota was about 80 percent contained as of Sunday morning.