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Thousands of people living in Paradise are fleeing their small northern California town Wednesday as wildfires charge into the area, officials said.

More than half the town's 26,000 residents have been evacuated as firefighters struggled to battle growing wildfires in the area, authorities said. Residents of the nearby town of Concow had already been told to leave their homes.

As of 10 a.m. about 14,000 people had been evacuated from Paradise, said Chuck Rough, director of the emergency operations center in the town. Read full article »

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