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Six more die in deadly California blaze
[DAWN] Thousands more fled their homes after wildfires surged near a small lake town in Northern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, while a deadly blaze farther north slowed slightly as crews stretched to their limits across the state fight flames that have claimed the lives of both firefighters and civilians.

Residents of the waterfront town Lakeport fled on Sunday after a major flare-up of two fires that combined across Mendocino and Lake counties destroyed at least four homes. Lakeport, home to about 5,000, is around 120 miles north of the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
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More than 4,500 buildings were under threat, officials said. The two fires had blackened 122 square kilometres, with minimal containment.

About 160 kilometres northeast, officials near Redding struck a hopeful tone for the first time in days as a massive fire slowed following days of explosive growth.

"We're feeling a lot more optimistic today as we're starting to gain some ground rather than being in a defensive mode on this fire all the time," said Bret Gouvea, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's incident commander on the blaze around Redding, a city about 370 kilometres north of San Francisco.


Posted by: Fred 2018-07-31
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