Friday, May 23, 2008

Wildfires Continue to Burn in California



About 1,400 homes remained under evacuation orders — more than 300 of them mandatory — while more than 900 firefighters and a swarm of tanker planes and helicopters continued dousing the area, near Gilroy, Calif.

Officials said that of the 12 structures destroyed, at least two were homes. Three schools in the area closed because of the fire, officials said.

Ian McClelland, 50, who has lived there since 1987 on his 23-acre ranch, woke up Thursday morning to an orange glow on the hillside. After returning to his property later, nothing was left except the concrete foundations.

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