Firefighters contain half of wildfire near California wine region

[WorldNews]

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By Curtis Skinner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Firefighters battling a raging wildfire near California's celebrated wine region turned a corner by Friday as they managed to draw containment lines around half of the blaze ravaging drought-parched brush and dry timber. The 24,555-acre (9,940-hectare) Jerusalem Fire broke out on Sunday in rural ranch land north of Napa County's wine-producing region, about 100 miles (160 km) north of San Francisco, and spread rapidly, said the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. While the blaze grew by several hundred acres overnight, firefighters have now contained 52 percent of the flames, according to Cal Fire, as the department is known.

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