Fierce winds fanning Californian wildfires are expected to abate on Monday, giving firefighters a chance to corral blazes that have scorched swaths of the picturesque wine country in the north and neighborhoods near Los Angeles in the south. “Most of the high wind and red flag warnings in the north expire about 11 a.m. today,” said Marc Chenard, a forecaster with the NWS’s Weather Prediction Center. The northern California wine country has borne the brunt of the fires, with 84 square miles (21,756 hectares) burned and 190,000 people evacuated in the so-called Kincade fire. …read more
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