Nearly 10,000 homes evacuated, 18 destroyed as ferocious California wildfire spreads

Flames raced down a steep Southern California hillside "like a freight train," forcing crews to clear as many as 10,000 homes by Monday as a wildfire raged through tinder-dry canyons there. The fire has destroyed at least 18 homes in northern Los Angeles County. It gained ferocious new power two days after it broke out, sending so much smoke in the air that planes making drops on it had to be grounded for part of the day Sunday. -- MORE...