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Firefighters expected to fully contain on Monday a fire that tore through Malibu's canyons and hills over the weekend, destroying more than 50 homes, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.

"It's more of a fuel-driven fire now, not a wind-driven fire," Ventura County Fire Department spokesman Conrad Quintana told CNN. As of early Monday, officials said the fire, which had scorched 4,720 acres, was 90 percent contained.

About 15,000 people were forced to evacuate from the flames, but many of them had returned by Sunday afternoon, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said. As of Monday afternoon, all mandatory evacuations had been lifted, according to Malibu's Web site. Read full article »

CNN's Ted Rowlands and Dan Simon contributed to this report.

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