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TheAssociatedPress KERNVILLE A wildfire northeast of Bakersfield burning in steep terrain destroyed eight homes and was threatening more than a thousand others, authori- ties said Wednesday. The blaze near Lake Is- abella was 15 percent con- tained after scorching about 5 square miles, Kern County Fire Capt. Derek Tisinger said. Firefighters working in drought conditions con- tinued building contain- ment lines after stopping the spread of the flames on Tuesday. "There's still huge poten- tial here, especially with the dry weather," Tisinger said. "We're not out of the woods yet." Eight single-family homes have been destroyed since the fire broke out on Monday, he said. Ten other structures were damaged, but it wasn't immediately clear how many or if any were homes. An estimated 1,500 homes in the Wofford Heights and Kernville areas remained threatened. Resi- dents of about 200 of those homes were under evacua- tion orders. The cause of the fire about 50 miles northeast of Bakersfield was under investigation. To the north, the remain- ing residents evacuated be- cause of a wildfire that led to mass evacuations near Yosemite National Park were allowed to return to their homes Wednesday. "We're at the point where we're turning the corner with the progress we had last night and yesterday," state fire spokesman Chris Christopherson said. The flames drove about 1,000 people from their homes around Oakhurst, a community of several thou- sand in Madera County. Roughly 400 evacuees were allowed to return on Tues- day, with the rest given the green light to return on Wednesday morning. The fire has burned about 1 square mile and was 40 percent contained. It started on Monday and quickly took off because of strong winds and tinder- dry conditions. Fire officials reported the destruction of an additional structure, bring the total of number of structures de- stroyed to nine. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries. The cause of the blaze was under inves- tigation. A road leading visitors to the park reopened Tuesday, and the park remained un- affected by the blaze. The fire comes amid Cal- ifornia's third straight year of drought, creating tinder- dry conditions that have significantly increased the fire danger around the state and sent firefighters scram- bling seemingly nonstop from blaze to blaze. STEEP TERRAIN Wildfiredestroyshomes,scorches5squaremiles ERICPAULZAMORA‑THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Firefighters extinguish a fire burning in a downed tree on the approach to Taylor Mountain a day a er the Junction fire swept across Highway 41in Oakhurst on Tuesday. "We're at the point where we're turning the corner with the progress we had last night and yesterday." — Chris Christopherson, state fire spokesman Thank you! PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Washington 90/74 New York 78/66 Miami 91/79 Atlanta 95/75 Detroit 82/68 Houston 95/76 Chicago 85/74 Minneapolis 90/71 Kansas City 95/77 El Paso 91/69 Denver 85/60 Billings 73/53 Los Angeles 83/65 San Francisco 73/60 Seattle 73/55 AIRQUALITYFORECAST Whatitmeans: 0-50:Good; 51-100:Moderate; 101-150:Unhealthyforsensitivepeople; 151+:Unhealthyforall. Source: Airnow.gov City Today'sairquality City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W CALIFORNIA CITIES National and world forecast s-sunny,pc-partly cloudy,c-cloudy,sh-showers,t-thunderstorms,r-rain,sf-snow flurries,sn-snow,i-ice City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Summary National Extremes World Extremes North and South America Asia, Australia Africa CarsonCity Hawthorne Reno Herlong Lovelock Sacramento Yuba City Napa Ukiah Chico Corning Lakeview Alturas Susanville Redding Red Bluff Laytonville Fort Bragg Point Arena Eureka Redway Mount Shasta Yreka Crescent City Ashland Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Shown are today's noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. ALMANAC Precipitation Temperatures ALLERGY REPORT Pollenlevels Source: National Allergy Bureau TODAY'S UV INDEX (The higher the number, the faster skin damage will occur.) Extreme Very high High Moderate Low SUN SETTINGS, MOON PHASES Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset Hoursofsunlight River Levels SacramentoRiver Flood 7a.m. 24-hr Stage yest. chg. Lake Levels Elevation Yesterday Storage (acre-feet) Percent Capacity Q: A: FRIDAY 91° 63° SATURDAY 95° 62° Mostly sunn y Sunshine SUNDAY 96° 62° Plenty of sunshine MONDAY 95° 63° Sunn y TODAY 95° 63° Mostly sunny. Mainly clear tonight. High ....................................................................... 85° Low ........................................................................ 64° Normal high ......................................................... 95° Normal low ........................................................... 63° Record high ........................................... 112° in 1950 Record low .............................................. 55° in 1959 Humidity noon today ........................................ 33% 24 hours through 2 p.m. yesterday ................. 0.00" Month to date ................................................... 0.10" Normal month to date ..................................... 0.08" Season to date .................................................. 0.11" Normal season to date .................................... 0.19" Red Bluff through 2 p.m. yesterday Chico .................................................................. Good Napa ................................................................... Good Red Bluff .............................................. Not available Redding ............................................... Not available Yuba City ................................................... Moderate Allergy, dust and dander today: Beneficial Grass ....................... Low Mold .........................Low Trees ............. Moderate Weeds ........... Moderate 7 Highest at 1 p.m. Today 6:26 a.m. 7:58 p.m. 3:01 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Friday 6:27 a.m. 7:56 p.m. 3:54 a.m. 6:08 p.m. 13 hr., 32 min. Aug25 New Sep2 First Full Sep8 Last Sep15 aboveBendBridge......................27 ...........2.70 ....... -0.10 atHamiltonCity.........................148 ......129.10 ....... -0.12 atOrdFerry................................114 ........96.80 ....... -0.08 atRedBluffDiversionDam.......253 ......238.80 .......none atTehamaBridge ......................213 ......201.20 ....... -0.10 atVinaWoodsonBridge............183 ......167.10 ....... -0.08 BlackButte ....................447.81..............48,214 .....33.6% LakeOroville..................685.02.........1,143,909 .....30.6% LakeShasta ...................920.41.........1,430,408 .....31.4% LakeTrinity..................2225.29............758,218 .....28.6% Whiskeytown...............1208.60............236,624 .....98.1% Weather Trivia ™ What is the hottest place in the world? Dallol, Ethiopia, has a mean annual temperature of 94 F. Today Friday Anaheim 85/64/pc 86/63/pc Bakersfield 96/71/s 97/69/s Chula Vista 82/66/t 84/66/pc Crescent City 63/52/pc 62/53/pc Death Valley 108/79/s 109/77/s Eureka 66/51/pc 67/50/pc Fremont 77/60/pc 75/57/s Fresno 98/69/s 99/70/s Glendale 85/63/s 87/62/s Huntington Beach 78/66/pc 79/65/pc Irvine 80/65/pc 81/64/pc Lake Tahoe 77/48/pc 74/38/s Long Beach 81/65/pc 84/65/pc Los Angeles 83/65/pc 85/65/pc Mammoth Mountain 76/45/s 75/41/s Modesto 91/62/s 91/60/s Monterey 70/57/pc 68/55/pc Moreno Valley 89/63/pc 90/60/s Napa 76/55/pc 75/52/s Needles 97/77/t 100/78/s Oakland 74/60/pc 71/58/s Oxnard 72/60/pc 73/60/pc Redding 95/62/pc 91/63/s Riverside 89/64/pc 90/61/s Sacramento 89/59/s 84/56/s San Bernardino 90/63/pc 90/61/s San Diego 79/69/t 81/68/pc San Francisco 73/60/pc 71/58/pc San Jose 80/59/pc 77/56/s San Luis Obispo 78/57/pc 78/58/pc Santa Ana 83/68/pc 84/68/pc Santa Barbara 74/60/pc 75/59/pc Santa Clarita 88/61/s 89/60/s Stockton 91/59/s 89/57/s Ventura 74/61/pc 75/61/pc Yosemite Valley 88/56/pc 87/53/s Today Friday Albuquerque 87/65/t 80/61/t Atlanta 95/75/s 96/76/pc Baltimore 86/67/t 82/66/t Boston 71/62/pc 71/61/c Buffalo 77/62/t 79/65/c Chicago 85/74/t 91/72/t Cincinnati 87/73/t 89/73/t Dallas 97/77/s 97/77/s Denver 85/60/t 77/56/t Detroit 82/68/t 83/67/t El Paso 91/69/t 83/67/t Fargo 80/62/r 81/61/pc Honolulu 90/77/pc 89/76/pc Houston 95/76/pc 96/76/s Indianapolis 87/73/t 90/73/t Kansas City 95/77/pc 94/75/s Las Vegas 93/74/t 95/73/s Louisville 94/76/t 94/77/pc Miami 91/79/t 92/79/pc Minneapolis 90/71/t 86/70/pc New Orleans 93/77/pc 94/77/pc New York City 78/66/sh 74/64/c Oklahoma City 96/75/s 100/72/s A zone containing downpours will extend from the Rockies and deserts to the northern Plains, Mid- west and Northeast today. The zone will include more than cloudy skies and gloomy conditions. Within this zone, clusters of flooding downpours can occur with isolated severe thunderstorms delivering strong wind gusts, hail and frequent lightning strikes. This battle zone will separate cool air over the upper Great Lakes and New England from a mass of building hot, humid air over the South. Parts of the South may have their hottest weather of the summer. High ............................. 102° in Laredo, TX Low .................. 37° in Boca Reservoir, CA High ..................... 119° in Kut-Al-Hai, Iraq Low ..... -5° in Summit Station, Greenland Bogota 66/48/c 66/49/c Buenos Aires 82/63/pc 74/62/t Caracas 90/73/pc 90/75/pc Ensenada 81/64/pc 84/66/s Mexico City 73/53/t 72/52/c Montreal 73/61/sh 78/61/pc Rio de Janeiro 81/66/s 84/67/s Tijuana 82/65/pc 84/65/s Toronto 76/62/t 78/63/c Vancouver 70/56/pc 72/58/pc Orlando 95/75/t 95/75/t Philadelphia 82/69/t 78/67/sh Phoenix 94/76/t 98/79/s Pittsburgh 80/67/t 81/67/t Portland, ME 74/56/pc 70/57/pc Portland, OR 78/58/pc 79/58/pc St. Louis 95/79/pc 97/79/pc Salt Lake City 83/63/pc 86/58/pc Seattle 73/55/pc 76/56/pc Tucson 88/69/t 91/70/t Washington, DC 90/74/t 86/72/t Cairo 93/72/s 97/76/s Casablanca 83/68/s 79/65/s Johannesburg 72/44/pc 62/37/s Kinshasa 91/72/pc 90/71/pc Lagos 80/73/r 81/73/c Nairobi 81/54/pc 81/56/pc Tripoli 105/83/s 103/82/s Baghdad 111/81/s 111/78/s Beijing 90/75/pc 88/73/t Hong Kong 89/80/t 89/79/r Jerusalem 85/63/s 83/66/s Kabul 95/59/s 90/55/s Manila 88/77/t 85/77/t Melbourne 61/41/pc 65/44/s New Delhi 100/81/pc 99/81/pc Seoul 75/68/r 83/70/sh Singapore 86/77/t 87/77/t Sydney 64/46/sh 66/46/sh Tehran 93/71/s 90/70/s Tokyo 92/78/pc 92/79/pc Amsterdam 64/54/pc 61/53/sh Athens 95/76/s 98/75/s Belgrade 86/58/t 79/64/pc Berlin 66/47/pc 70/55/pc Budapest 71/50/t 74/54/pc Dublin 60/47/pc 60/44/pc London 65/54/pc 66/49/pc Madrid 86/61/s 87/59/s Moscow 78/56/pc 69/47/sh Paris 70/52/pc 70/53/pc Rome 82/64/pc 83/64/s Stockholm 65/52/sh 65/52/sh Vienna 70/53/t 71/56/pc Zurich 69/43/pc 72/50/pc 84/52 90/59 89/58 87/52 90/54 89/59 92/60 76/55 92/56 94/62 94/63 81/41 85/44 85/47 95/62 95/63 84/52 65/54 65/55 66/51 86/52 85/46 88/52 63/52 86/50 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2014 MongolianBBQ Mongolian BBQ K K ahunas ahunas American Style It's all about the choices! 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