Fires ravage California as crews try containing blazes

Updated Sunday, July 6, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AP

Fires ravage California as crews try containing blazes

BIG SUR, California -- A pair of out-of-control wildfires roared along California’s central coast, chewing through opposite ends of a parched forest and threatening more than 4,500 homes. While flames from the stubborn fire in the northern flank of the Los Padres National Forest inched closer to Big Sur’s historic vacation retreats, firefighters farther south braced for the return of evening winds that a day earlier caused a wildfire in Santa Barbara County to double in size and race dangerously close to hundreds of homes.

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