Firefighters Race to Beat Santa Anas

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Despite good news on containment of the fires burning in both LosAngeles and San Bernardino counties, fire officials are wary of a predictedreturn of Santa Ana winds this week.

Fire officials pronounced the 24,000-acre Topanga Fire 60 percentcontained by Saturday evening, and in Burbank the 1,100-acre Castaways firehad been reduced mostly to embers.

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Firefighters Race to Beat Santa Anas

But firefighters were already worrying about arid 20- to 40-mph windsforecast to sweep out of southland canyons Monday night through Wednesday.

"Every little ember on that hillside is going to be blown into aflame," Burbank fire Capt. Don Bell said as crews cut fire lines aroundthe remnants of the blaze that blac...

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