California Makes Progress on Wildfires, but Danger Remains

Nearly 5,000 firefighters worked Thursday to try to gain control over five major wildfires burning in parched California, making enough headway for officials to lift some of the evacuation orders that had forced residents to flee their homes. But the National Weather Service issued a red flag warning for the mountains of Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, saying the combination of high temperatures, gusty winds and low humidity could challenge those crews and raise the risk...

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