Sharjah24 - Reuters: Three Southern California wildfires torched dozens of mountain homes, tore through a ski resort and forced thousands to evacuate in towns and cities on Wednesday.
Around 40 homes and cabins burned in the villages of Mount Baldy and Wrightwood and flames damaged lifts at the nearby Mountain High ski resort.
The San Bernardino County blaze, named the Bridge Fire, exploded to 48,000 acres (19,000 hectares) in 48 hours, becoming the largest in the state. By Wednesday afternoon the three fires had blackened over 105,000 acres of scrub, brush and forest,.
"In recent history, this is the fire that has been the most dramatic over a single day period," LAFD spokesman Fred Fielding said of the Bridge Fire, as flames burned on a nearby hillside.
Mike Devestern, 55 and a Wrightwood resident, said he was stunned by the speed with which the fire arrived on his doorstep and the chaos of watching his community flee Tuesday afternoon.
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