4 California Fires Are Contained
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Taking advantage of calm winds, California firefighters Sunday contained four potentially disastrous brush fires behind miles of freshly cut fire lines and scrambled to extinguish the blazes before they could flare again.
Nearly 500 firefighters cleared 6 1/2 miles of line to contain a 2,200-acre fire in the Santa Ynez Valley north of Santa Barbara, while about a dozen firefighters dug firebreaks around a 163-acre fire near the Cajon Pass in San Bernardino County.
In Butte County north of Sacramento, firefighters won a three-day fight to contain two blazes--the 6,300-acre Villa fire, which burned part of the town of Palermo, and another fire that scorched 6,000 acres near Paradise and briefly threatened Butte College.
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