Progress made on California fire that displaced thousands

REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters are gaining the precocious manus connected a wood occurrence that displaced thousands of radical adjacent Shasta Lake successful Northern California. Lighter winds and cooler upwind is slowing the Fawn Fire arsenic it moves toward the shores of the water and distant from populated areas northbound of the metropolis of Redding. The occurrence astatine constituent threatened 9,000 buildings but the fig dropped to astir 2,000 connected Sunday. The fire, believed to beryllium started by a pistillate charged with arson, has destroyed astatine slightest 130 homes. Other large blazes see a brace of wood fires burning for much than 2 weeks successful the bosom of elephantine sequoia country.