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REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Wildfires in rural California have now burned more than five square miles of ground, prompting evacuations but officials say no homes are immediately threatened.
A blaze that erupted Friday afternoon near Redding in Northern California has burned 2,500 acres of foothill brush and oak in a sparsely populated area. The fire in the community of Igo (Ee'-goh) is just 10 percent contained.
An evacuation order is in place near a country road. The Shasta County Sheriff's Office says four homes with several dozen people have been evacuated as a precaution.
In Central California, an 800-acre fire is burning in a remote wilderness area of the Sequoia National Forest. No buildings are endangered and the fire area is well away from the site of the famous giant sequoia trees.
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