Camarillo, United States, Nov 8, 2024 (AFP) - Over 130 homes lost in California wildfire: officials

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2024-11-08

More than 130 homes are now known to have been destroyed by a raging wildfire burning outside Los Angeles, as a break in the weather Friday gave firefighters a chance to tame the blaze. Hurricane-strength winds that battered the area this week fuelled an explosion in the Mountain Fire near Camarillo, which grew rapidly to over 20,000 acres (8,000 hectares). Thousands of people in the path of the inferno were forced to flee, some describing how th......

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