- Dry and windy weather hampers efforts to fight dozens of fires
- Dixie fire, California’s biggest, only 35% contained
Dry and windy weather hampered efforts to contain destructive fires that are devouring the bone-dry forests of drought-stricken northern California, as a small wildfire swept through a mobile home park, leaving dozens of homes in ashes and injuring at least one person.
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