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Easing winds help Californian firefighters
Los Angeles - Easing winds offered Californian firefighters some respite on Thursday as they battled to contain blazes that have killed at least three and caused more than a billion dollars in property damage.
Some 1,800 buildings have been destroyed in the 18 wildfires that have erupted since Sunday, forcing about half a million people to flee their homes and scorching 426,000 acres) of tinder-dry countryside stretching from Malibu to beyond the Mexican border.
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