LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Cooler weather on Sunday gave a boost to crews battling the enormous wildfire that was threatening nearly 2,700 homes in Santa Barbara County. The four-day-old fire in the Los Padres National Forest, which had blackened about...

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AMERICAN firefighters got a gift of a mild, mostly windless night and a forecast for similar conditions yesterday as they battled to protect thousands of homes from a huge wildfire in California. More than 300 blazes still burning around the state....
With extreme heat in the offing, more than 4,000 firefighters held the line Saturday against a massive wildfire threatening thousands of homes in Santa Barbara County, but made little progress in controlling a larger, out-of-control blaze ringing...
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