Californian Fires Keep On Raging

World | October 26, 2003, Sunday // 00:00

A wildfire leaped through dense housing tracts in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains on Saturday, destroying more than 200 homes, threatening 1,000 others and forcing thousands of people to flee under a sky thick with smoke and tinged orange-red by flames. Two deaths were being attributed to the fire by the San Bernardino County coroner's office late Saturday. The victims, both men, collapsed from stress and died - one while evacuating his home, the other while watching his house burn. The fire, which erupted around 9 am local time, was propelled by fierce Santa Ana winds as it devoured 10,000 acres of chaparral within hours.

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