Better weather gives leg up to crews on California wildfires

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) " The winds eased, some of the smoke began to clear and the forecast Monday offered a tantalizing chance of rain to thousands of firefighters trying to corral the wildfires that have laid waste to the nation's most celebrated wine-making region.The progress was tempered by word of the first death from the weeklong firefighting effort " a driver who was killed Monday when his truck overturned on a winding mountain road.The driver, who had been delivering [...]


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