Burned out properties are seen near the Lake Keswick Estates area during the Carr fire in Redding, California on July 27, 2018.Two firefighters have died and more than 100 homes have burned as wind-whipped flames tore through the region. / AFP PHOTO / JOSH EDELSON
Thousands of people in Southern California had fled a deliberately set blaze southeast of Los Angeles by Saturday morning, after the state’s governor requested federal aid to help battle a deadly fire elsewhere.
A blaze known as the Cranston Fire, and the Northern California Carr Fire in which two firefighters have lost their lives, are among the most serious of several blazes burning in the most populous US state.
A third major blaze, the Ferguson Fire, has encroached upon the Yosemite National Park in central…
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