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California wildfire burns more than 200 homes.

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California wildfire burns more than 200 homes.

Firefighters are battling a raging wildfire near Lake Tahoe in California that has destroyed more than 200 homes and forced about 1,000 people to leave.

Officials say 460 firefighters are tackling the blaze and they expect that number to double during the day.

In Alaska, fire crews were working to protect hundreds of homes in the Kenai Peninsula as a fire which broke out last week continued to smoulder.

The fire spread 81 square miles (210 sq km) before being slowed by rain.

High winds were hampering firefighters as they tried to tackle the fast-moving fire near the town of South Lake Tahoe in California's Sierra Nevada, fire officials said.

The blaze, believed to have been started by human activity, was reported on Sunday afternoon.

"It's like a 100-ft wall of flame that's marching through the forest," Leona Allen of South Lake Tahoe's fire and police departments' dispatch centre told the Los Angeles Times.

"It's thick with smoke. You can't see your hand. You can't see anything across the street."

Lt Kevin House of the El Dorado County Sherriff's Department said it was "far and above the biggest disaster that has happened in this community".

-BBC-

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