500,000 flee raging California wildfires (AP) / Friday, November 21, 2008

500,000 flee raging California wildfires (AP)

October 24, 2007

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A home and motor home, at left, burn during a wildfire in Running Springs, Calif., Tuesday Oct. 23, 2007. Wildfires consumed hundreds of homes across tinder-dry Southern California on Tuesday, raising the number of people forced to flee the flames into the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)AP - Faced with unrelenting winds whipping wildfires into a frenzy across Southern California, firefighters conceded defeat on many fronts Tuesday to an unstoppable force that has chased more than 500,000 people away.