California blazes merge to form a 62,000-acre bonfire

"Two fires burning in the desert land of San Bernardino County have joined, producing a 62,000-acre blaze heading toward dead trees in the San Bernardino National Forest."

California Wildfires Force Evacuations

MORONGO VALLEY, Calif. (AP) -- The first major wildfire of the summer raced across more than 5,500 acres of tinder-dry desert brush, destroying at least seven homes, threatening hundreds of others and sending residents of this sparsely populated Mojave Desert community...

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