Weather Assists in Quelling Wildfire That Destroyed 2 Homes
Favorable weather allowed firefighters Wednesday to quell a 400-acre wildfire the day after it destroyed two homes and forced residents to flee from hundreds of other residences.
State Department of Forestry spokeswoman Annette Shimer said the blaze, just east of this small Calaveras County town, had been circled by bare-earth control lines and that firefighters expected to douse all remaining flames by late Wednesday.
The blaze roared through the rolling, oak-covered Sierra foothills Tuesday in the Mother Lode, destroying a schoolhouse-turned-home that was more than 100 years old and a $200,000 home that the owner said once belonged to state Sen. John Garamendi, a Walnut Grove Democrat, and was featured in Sunset magazine.
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