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2007 California Wildfires

50% contained

By Amanda Covarrubias
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The LAFD said the fire is now 50% contained. Officials now say 817 acres have burned. Because of the progress, about half of the 600 firefighters on scene are being let go.

‘Right now, if it goes like this, we are in good shape,’ said LAPD Capt. Antoine McKnight.

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-Amanda Covarrubias

2007 California Wildfires
Amanda Covarrubias

Amanda Covarrubias is the former Central Coast reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Before that assignment, she worked for The Times’ L.A. Now blog, where she edited stories on the trials and tribulations of Justin Bieber, Lindsay Lohan and Chris Brown, as well as non-celebrity California news like wildfires, crimes and shark attacks. She was part of the team that won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting, and the team that was named a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting of the Isla Vista shootings. She left The Times in 2015.

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