Haifa Fire in Check, but Others Rage Elsewhere in Israel

Israeli firefighters Friday reined in a blaze that had spread across Haifa, the country's third-largest city, and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes, but continued to battle more than a dozen other fires around the country for the fourth day in a row. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes as police forces and firefighting units were heavily deployed in the Haifa area for fear that the fire could be reignited because of the rare dry, windy...

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