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300 000 evacuated in California
23/10/2007 20:25 - (SA)
Los Angeles - More than 300 000 people have been evacuated and about 1 000 homes have been destroyed in wildfires besieging the Californian city of San Diego, officials said on Tuesday.
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders told reporters that exact figures for the numbers of homes that have been razed by the infernos were hard to pin down, but officials estimated the total at around 1 000.
San Diego County has emerged as the ground zero of California's wildfire crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to flee from the multiple fires that have sprouted across the region.
Sanders said authorities had placed more than 270 000 calls to households ordering them to evacuate.
In San Diego County alone, the fires had devastated more than 81 000ha.
- AFP
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