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Los Angeles wildfires threaten thousands of homes - No end in sight

By equinox - Posted on 31 August 2009

August 31, 2009 |  3:43 pm

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A voracious five-day-old wildfire that has churned through more than 105,000 acres of mountainous brush across northern Los Angeles County showed little sign of slowing down this afternoon as it threatened 12,000 homes in suburban tracts and desert communities, along with a historic observatory and major array of television and radio transmission towers.


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