Published Aug 19, 2001 8:43 am : Updated Jan 31, 2009 5:55 pm
Wildfires continue to rage in Northern
California tonight. One has forced authorities to evacuate
residents of homes near the American River in Placer County. Another has closed a popular swath of Modoc National Forest.
The Ponderosa Fire in
Placer County has scorched more than two-thousand acres and spread within a half-mile of homes today.
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