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    Southern California firefighters advance against wildfires

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    By NOAH BERGER and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press

    CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters in Southern California made progress against a wildfire that destroyed 132 structures, mostly homes, and was fanned by gusty winds. winds that began to ease on Friday, allowing some people to return to survey the charred remains of their homes.

    Maryanne Belote returned to her hillside neighborhood in Camarillo, a city northwest of Los Angeles, after a harrowing escape with her cat, dog and horses as the fire raged through the area. The only thing left standing was a rock wall that she built.

    “If I hadn’t gotten the horses I would have been devastated, but I have my family and my animals so I’m fine. I’ll rebuild it,” he said, standing in front of the remains of his 50-year-old home while his dog remained in his car.

    The mountain fire started Wednesday morning in Ventura County and had grown to 32 square miles (approximately 83 square kilometers). It was 7% contained Friday morning.

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    The remains of a home destroyed by the Mountain Fire are shown in Camarillo, Calif., Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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    Bill Nardoni and his family sifted through the rubble of his Camarillo home Friday afternoon and discovered his wedding ring in a safe. But his wife’s, kept in a different safe in another part of their house, was still missing, and Nardoni didn’t have high hopes that it would be found intact.

    Nardoni, his wife and mother-in-law fled Wednesday morning with their dogs as flames engulfed both sides of the road. They returned Friday to the devastation of a house they had bought just a year ago and that was still being remodeled.

    “The house is decimated. “There is really nothing to rescue from this,” he said. “I don’t know what we’ll do.”

    Thousands of people remained under evacuation orders Friday morning as the fire continued to threaten about 3,500 structures in suburban neighborhoods, ranches and agricultural areas around Camarillo in Ventura County.

    At least 88 additional structures were damaged in addition to the 132 destroyed. Authorities did not specify whether they had been burned or affected by water or smoke damage. The cause of the fire has not been determined.

    Ten people suffered smoke inhalation or other non-life-threatening injuries, Ventura County Sheriff James Fryhoff said.

    Bill Nardoni and his family sifted through the rubble of his Camarillo home Friday afternoon and discovered his wedding ring in a safe. But his wife’s, kept in a different safe in another part of their house, was still missing, and Nardoni didn’t have high hopes that it would be found intact.

    Nardoni, his wife and mother-in-law fled Wednesday morning with their dogs as flames engulfed both sides of the road. They returned Friday to the devastation of a house they had bought just a year ago and that was still being remodeled.

    “The house is decimated. “There is really nothing to rescue from this,” he said. “I don’t know what we’ll do.”

    Thousands of people remained under evacuation orders Friday morning as the fire continued to threaten about 3,500 structures in suburban neighborhoods, ranches and agricultural areas around Camarillo in Ventura County.

    This combination of two satellite images released by Maxar Technologies shows homes before and after being devastated by a fire in Camarillo, California, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies via AP)
    This combination of two satellite images released by Maxar Technologies shows homes before and after being devastated by a fire in Camarillo, California, on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. (Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies via AP)

    At least 88 additional structures were damaged in addition to the 132 destroyed. Authorities did not specify whether they had been burned or affected by water or smoke damage. The cause of the fire has not been determined.

    Ten people suffered smoke inhalation or other non-life-threatening injuries, Ventura County Sheriff James Fryhoff said.

    Crews working in steep terrain supported by water-dropping helicopters were focused on protecting homes on hillsides along the northeast edge of the fire near the city of Santa Paula, home to more than 30,000 people, fire officials said. county firefighters.

    Officials in several Southern California counties urged residents to be on the lookout for rapidly spreading fires, power outages and downed trees during the latest round of notorious Santa Ana windsincluding in a rural area of ​​northern San Diego County where a wildfire prompted mandatory evacuations Friday afternoon.

    The Santa Anas are dry, warm, gusty northeasterly winds that blow from inland Southern California toward the coast and offshore, moving in the opposite direction to the normal onshore flow that carries moist air from the Pacific. They typically occur during the fall months and continue through the winter and early spring.

    Red flag warnings, which indicate high fire danger conditions, expired in most of the area on Thursday, except in the Santa Susana Mountains, where warnings expired Friday morning as winds began to subside.

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