Attempt to control Camp Pendleton blaze backfires

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Camp Pendleton fire:

The blaze “spread because they set a backfire to try to control it, and the wind shifted, and that’s where it jumped Interstate 5,” said Lee Swanson, a spokesman for San Diego Fire and Rescue.

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