LOS ANGELES: Evacuation orders have been issued to 13,000 people in California as firefighters struggle to contain some 20 wildfires.
Around 9,000 firefighters worked throughout Monday in steep terrain and rugged conditions, officials said.
The biggest blaze – the so-called Rocky fire north of San Francisco – has already consumed more than 101 square miles (262 sq km) of land.
On Monday afternoon the fire jumped a highway that had been containing it.
More than 3,000 firefighters were employed to fight that specific blaze.
