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Calif. residents return to survey fire damage
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-09-03 20:51

Calif. residents return to survey fire damage
Vehicles and structures that burned during the Station Fire are pictured in the Tujunga area of Los Angeles, California September 1, 2009. [Agencies]
Calif. residents return to survey fire damage

LOS ANGELES: Bulldozers are carving fire breaks along the southeast flank of a menacing 219-square-mile (140,000-acre) Southern California wildfire to keep a flare-up of flames away from foothill homes across the region.

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Fire spokeswoman Jennifer Sanchez said early Thursday that the vegetation-clearing construction of containment lines is designed to keep flames in remote mountain areas above the cities, adding "dozer lines have been successful." She says 12,000 homes are threatened.

Full containment is expected September 15.

Additionally, a firefighting force atop Mount Wilson has managed to keep flames from reaching communications infrastructure and a historic observatory.

The wildfire, now in its eighth day, has burned 140,150 acres (56,700 hectares) and destroyed 64 homes.

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