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Article: Wildfire outbreaks plague California firefighters, residents in California
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- August 30, 2009
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LOS ANGELES - A growing wildfire in the mountains north of Los
Angeles spread over nearly 9 square miles of bone-dry forest
Saturday, forcing evacuations and sending up massive billows of
smoke that were hampering air operations, officials said.
"It's difficult for water-dropping aircraft to get in there, but
they're still trying," said Forest Service spokesperson Jessica
Luna.
The blaze in the steep San Gabriel Mountains above La Canada
Flintridge continued to move out in all directions, the most active
flanks to the north, deeper into the forest, and east, Luna said.
The fire was 5 percent contained.
The flames burned increasingly lower down the edges of the
mountains and crept toward the ...