Wildfires - California
More than 6,500 firefighters battled 11 large wildfires scorching California Wednesday as the state sweated out an extended heat wave.
Around 3,600 homes were threatened by blazes from Orange County to the Oregon border. One fire, 60 miles east of Sacramento in the Eldorado National Forest, burned over 18,000 acres and forced 2,155 people from their homes.
More than 200 miles north of that fire, the small city of Weed—at the base of Mount Shasta in the Cascade Mountains—remained under threat from a fast-moving wildfire even as residents began to grapple with the loss of 150 homes destroyed Monday, officials there said. More than 1,000 residents were still under evacuation orders and around 150 people were in area shelters, said a spokeswoman for Cal Fire, the state fire agency.
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