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Weather May Fuel CA Wildfires

By: Associated Press
Posted: Mon 7:21 AM, Jul 07, 2008
Fire crews from a joint task force from Nebraska, Colorado, Oregon and Kansas, are engufed by smoke from a wildfire as it approaches a home on Partington Ridge  Rd. south of Big Sur, Calif., Friday, June 27, 2008. Fire crews continue to fight the Basin Complex fire, which is burning in the Los Padres National Forest near the coastal town of Big Sur. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Fire crews from a joint task force from Nebraska, Colorado, Oregon and Kansas, are engufed by smoke from a wildfire as it approaches a home on Partington Ridge Rd. south of Big Sur, Calif., Friday, June 27, 2008. Fire crews continue to fight the Basin Complex fire, which is burning in the Los Padres National Forest near the coastal town of Big Sur. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Firefighters in California who got some help from the weather Sunday may not like the forecast in the days ahead.

Temperatures will climb back into the 90s by later this week. And the moist air currents that kept Sunday highs to the upper 70s will go away.

Nearly 2,700 homes near Goleta in Santa Barbara County were in jeopardy earlier in the weekend, but many of the evacuation orders were lifted or changed to warnings by last night. That's allowed many people to return home.

Wildfires have burned more than 800 square miles of land in California and destroyed about 70 homes in the past two weeks.

One firefighter died of a heart attack while digging fire lines.


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