"A wildfire that tore through brush east of Los Angeles forced 700 people from their homes for several hours Tuesday and destroyed a small building, officials said.

The fast-moving fire prompted the evacuations as it raced through 1.5 square miles of drought-dry hills near Banning, the Riverside County Fire Department said.

It was 10 percent contained by nightfall, and the evacuations, most of which were from a mobile home park, were canceled."

The Associated Press had the story August 31, 2016. [2]

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"Like Tens of Millions of Matchsticks, California’s Dead Trees Stand Ready to Burn" (New York Times) [3]