WildFires forcing 250,000 people to leave homes in southern California


	WildFires forcing 250,000 people to leave homes in southern California

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10-22-2007 6:29 PM

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                                        Over 250,000 urged to flee Calif. fires                </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071022/ap_on_re_us/california_wildfires"><P>
                        SAN DIEGO - More than a quarter-million people were urged to flee their homes across <SPAN id="lw_1193091811_0" class="yshortcuts">Southern</SPAN> <SPAN id="lw_1193091811_1" class="yshortcuts">California</SPAN> on Monday as wildfires blown by fierce desert winds raced over the landscape with terrifying speed, even leaping a 10-lane freeway in a matter of minutes.                        
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071022/ap_on_re_us/california_wildfires"><P>At least one person was killed, and dozens were injured. Scores of homes and other buildings were feared burned, and thousands more were threatened as more than a dozen blazes formed a hellish, spidery pattern of luminous orange covering at least 310 square miles of the drought-stricken region.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071022/ap_on_re_us/california_wildfires"><P>More than 265,000 people from <SPAN id="lw_1193091811_3" class="yshortcuts">Malibu</SPAN> to <SPAN id="lw_1193091811_4" class="yshortcuts">San Diego</SPAN> were warned to leave their homes. More than 250,000 were told to flee in <SPAN id="lw_1193091811_5" class="yshortcuts">San Diego County</SPAN> alone, where hundreds of patients were moved by school bus and ambulance from a hospital and nursing homes, some in hospital gowns and wheelchairs. Some carried their medical records in large zip-lock <SPAN id="lw_1193091811_6" class="yshortcuts">plastic bags</SPAN>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CD3EB70A-4863-4127-9B83-DB3C7986722B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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