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Break in weather slows California wildfires
26 octobre 2007, 00:00
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Break in weather slows California wildfires
California wildfires that have destroyed 1,300 homes and forced the evacuation of 500,000 people raged into a fifth day yesterday but firefighters seized on a break in the weather to largely halt the march of destruction.
Some 15 fires still blazed across the southern part of the state, lighting up the night sky, but officials said cooler temperatures and weaker winds allowed them to win a measure of control for the first time and that the worst was behind them.
President George W. Bush, who declared California?s wildfires a ?major disaster,? triggering extra federal help, was due to survey the damage with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday and check on the government?s response. Already the Federal Emergency Management Agency, criticized along with Bush for being slow to respond to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, had 1,000 people on the ground in badly scorched San Diego County.
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