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People are evacuated on a California National Guard Chinook helicopter after the Creek Fire in Mammoth Pool, California, US left them stranded.Image: California National Guard/Handout via REUTERS.
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM

‘Fire on all sides’: California wildfires prompt evacuations

More than 200 people were airlifted to safety overnight after a fast-moving wildfire cut off the only road out of the Mammoth Pool Reservoir, a popular recreational site in California’s Sierra National Forest. Twenty evacuees were taken…

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