US Wildfires
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- ITN
US Wildfires
Some California residents have returned to their homes to see the devastation caused by the wildfires. The sad procession came as calm winds and clear skies allowed firefighters to make gains on two Southern California wildfires that devastated hundreds of homes and forced thousands of residents to flee during the weekend. In Sylmar, vans carried small groups past the rubble at the Oakridge mobile home park and made brief stops so residents whose homes were still intact could collect medication or other essential items before returning to an evacuation centre at Sylmar High School. An inferno destroyed 484 homes in the park on Saturday. Firefighters were able to save about 120 homes but many were badly damaged. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in San Bernardino County, the fourth county to receive the designation since a series of wildfires broke out last Thursday. The declaration directs state emergency workers to assist local firefighters in containing the blaze and evacuating residents. The largest of the fires, the so-called Freeway Complex Fire, has burned more than 28,000 acres in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties and has destroyed more than 160 homes.
ITN | November 18, 2008
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