A wind-whipped wildfire started by an arsonist killed four firefighters and stranded up to 400 people in an recreational-vehicle park in California.
"Everybody is hunkered down here. They're fighting the fire around us. It's across the street from us," said Charles Van Brunt, a ranger at the station at the entrance to Silent Valley Club, the recreational vehicle park near Palm Springs. The residents were in no immediate danger, he said last night.
Authorities asked people in the park to stay put to leave roads clear for firefighters. Hundreds of others in the area were forced from their homes.
Fire officials said the blaze was deliberately set around 1 a.m. Fire Chief John Hawkins said the arson "constitutes murder."
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Friday, October 27, 2006
Four firefighters killed in California wildfire
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