Most California Blazes Under Control, Arson Suspect Charged

A man was charged with setting one of nearly a dozen wildfires that have destroyed or damaged dozens of homes and burned nearly 11,000 hectares of brush land near the southern California city of San Diego, but most of the blazes seemed to be dying down. Helped by cooler temperatures and calmer winds, firefighters Saturday continued battling four major brush fires in northern San Diego County, including three at the Camp Pendleton Marine base. Thousands of firefighters and fleets of...

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