A fast-growing wildfire outside California's Yosemite National Park has destroyed a dozen homes and charred more than 26,000 acres of dry timber, the state's forestry department said Monday.
Days of moist, cool weather helped firefighters get a handle on a destructive wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains that scorched 3,900 acres and at least 29 homes
A raging wildfire near Palm Springs that has killed four firefighters and burned about 10,000 acres was deliberately set, said John Hawkins, of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention's Riverside County Fire Department.
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