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Article: 3 injured in unrelenting California fires
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2009
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LOS ANGELES -- A growing wildfire sending massive billows of
smoke into the sky north of Los Angeles nearly tripled in size
Saturday, injuring three residents, burning a small number of homes,
knocking out power to many more and prompting evacuations in a
number of mountain communities.
Mandatory evacuations were extended Saturday into neighborhoods
in the canyons on the northwestern edge of Altadena, Glendale, La
Crescenta and Big Tujunga Canyon, Forest Service spokesman Bruce
Quintelier said. It was unclear how many residents were ordered to
leave.
The flames crept lower down the slopes of the San Gabriel
Mountains despite winds blowing predominantly in the other
direction, threatening ...