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Wildfires force frantic evacuations near LA
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-10-14 10:02

Firefighters try to put out the fire in a storage yard during the second day of the Marek wildfire in Sylmar, California October 13, 2008. Deadly wind-driven brush fires roared out of the foothills and canyons on the northern fringe of Los Angeles on Monday, destroying dozens of homes and threatening hundreds more dwellings. [Agencies]