Desert homes threatened by enormous California wildfire

Members of the San Bernardino County Fire Department keep an eye on a flareup from the Bobcat Fire, in Valyermo, Calif., on Sept. 19, 2020.An enormous wildfire that churned through mountains northeast of Los Angeles and into the Mojave Desert was still threatening homes on Monday, but officials said calmer winds could help crews corral the flames.

Firefighters fought back against another flare-up near Mount Wilson, which overlooks greater Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Mountains and has a historic observatory founded more than a century ago and numerous broadcast antennas serving Southern California. Nearly 19,000 firefighters in California are fighting more than two dozen major wildfires. At least 7,900 wildfires have burned more than 6,000 square miles in the state this year, including many since a mid-August barrage of dry lightning ignited parched vegetation.Officials were investigating the death of a firefighter at another Southern California wildfire that erupted earlier this month from a smoke-generating pyrotechnic device used by a couple to reveal their baby’s gender.

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