California Wildfire Burns Dozens of Homes, Hundreds Evacuated

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The blaze broke out on Thursday afternoon and burnt about 2,000 acres.

On Wednesday, an army of firefighters near the Mexican border in California battled a blaze for the third consecutive day. It was one of several wildfires that have charred huge swaths of western United States.

Further north, near the US city of Los Angeles, more than 700 homes have been evacuated as two wildfires threatened to merge.

Elsewhere in the western United States, a record-setting heat wave fueled wildfires in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming.

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