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Firefighters advancing Blaze who closed the California highway

Castaic, California: Firefighters made progress on fire who jumped across the southern California freeway and spread across the hillside slopes while the new fire forced the population of the North California community to be evacuated.
The fire broke on Saturday afternoon near Casaic in the North Los Angeles County.
Driven by wind 10-15mph (16-24 kph), the fire chew brushing and jumping across a busy freeway, spread over half a square mile.
The California highway patrols closed the interstate overtime for several hours because the air tanker dropped bright orange retarded on the flame.
Large flares sent dense smoke which floated into a freeway on Sunday afternoon, CHP reported.
Two firefighters were taken to the hospital to treat burns, Andrew Mitchell said, a spokesman for the National Forest Angeles.
Officials said the fire was around 63% contained on Sunday, adding that firefighters made advances overnight with the help of water drop aircraft and aggressive soil attacks, said Mitchell.
He said the crew would take advantage of the beginning of the cooling trend on Sunday to build a detention line.
The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Meanwhile, the fire erupted on Sunday afternoon encouraged the authority of Mendocino County to evacuate the Calpella, a community on the Russian river of about 6 miles (10 kilometers) north of Ukiah.
The video recording posted on Twitter shows the fire pushes towards Lake Mendocino.
Further north, the residents of the city of the mountains were destroyed by the large Caldor South API Lake Tahoe would be allowed to return on Sunday to check damage.
Most of the Flat Grizzly House, as well as schools, post offices, churches and fire station were destroyed in the first days of the fire a month.
The evacuation order was also appointed to the house throughout the state of 50 as a detention of a fire of 342-miles of square (886 square kilometers) increased to 65%.
President Joe Biden issued a disaster declaration on Sundays for El Dorado County in an effort to provide federal funds to the Government, tribe and qualified, plus certain private non-profit organizations, which have been affected by the Caldor fire.
The firefighters were diverted from fighting against the fire to fight some lightning fire last night when the Lightning storm swept the country on Thursday night to Friday.
Lightning storm dropped light rain to slightly dampen the north which was hit by drought, said fire.
Up to half an inch of rain down on the parts of the Dixie fire, which began in mid-July and has burned the Great Match of Sierra Nevada North and South Cascades.
However, firefighting officials said the rain drained quickly and vegetation became more flammable.
The second largest fire in California’s history has burned 1,500 square miles (3,885 square kilometers) land and more than 1,300 homes and other buildings.
It’s 65% contained.

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