California firefighters battle wind-driven wildfire east of San Francisco
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California firefighters made significant progress Sunday to tame a wind-driven wildfire that scorched thousands of acres 60 miles east of San Francisco, burned down a home and forced residents to flee the area near the central California city of Tracy. The fire erupted Saturday afternoon in the grassy hills managed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the country’s key centers for nuclear weapons science and technology. The cause was under investigation. The...

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