Excerpts from the news:
"Flames are chasing residents from homes as four Southern California wildfires rage untamed this morning. A heat wave with triple digit temperatures and single digit humidity levels are adding to the misery of firefighters already coping with steep terrain and dense thickets of bush and brush.
More than 3,200 acres has burned since Tuesday.
The Rancho Palos Verdes fire erupted last night and quickly spread, damaging three homes and several garages and outbuildings. But firefighters managed to keep it from expanding overnight. The 100-acre blaze is 35 percent contained.
The fire near La Canada Flintridge began to kick up again yesterday afternoon, a day after it began in the Angeles National Forest. It has now burned 1,500 acres and is about 10 percent contained.
To the east, another fire in the San Gabriel Mountains is 60 percent contained with 2,000 acres burned in the past four days.
To the west in Riverside County, another wildfire has blackened 600 acres and authorities have urged residents of 12 homes near Hemet to leave.
Farther north in Monterey County, 100 homes were evacuated about four miles from the community of Soledad. The fire burned more than 2,000 acres of steep grasslands."
