SACRAMENTO, California — California firefighters made significant progress Sunday to tame a wind-driven wildfire that scorched thousands of acres 60 miles (97 kilometers) east of San Francisco, burned down a home and forced residents to flee the area near the central California city of Tracy.
SACRAMENTO, California — California firefighters made significant progress Sunday to tame a wind-driven wildfire that scorched thousands of acres 60 miles east of San Francisco , burned down a home and forced residents to flee the area near the central California city of Tracy.The fire erupted Saturday afternoon in the grassy hills managed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the country's key centers for nuclear weapons science and technology.
The wildfire presented no threat to any laboratory facilities or operations and had moved away from the site, Lawrence Livermore spokesperson Paul Rhien said in a statement to The Associated Press early Sunday.'As a precaution, we have activated our emergency operations center to monitor the situation through the weekend,' Rhien said.Photos showed a wall of flames moving over the parched landscape as dark smoke billowed into the sky.
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