Fast-moving California wildfire poses threat to rural communities

A fast-moving wildfire in northern California is threatening rural communities near the Oregon border, injuring people and torching homes.

The blaze, dubbed the Mill fire, began on Friday afternoon and quickly blew into a neighborhood on the northern edge of Weed but then carried the flames away from the small city, which has a population of about 2,600.

Suzi Brady, a Cal Fire spokeswoman, said several people were injured, and local hospital officials told the Associated Press that multiple people have been treated for burns.

Elsewhere, fires were also burning in Castaic, north of Los Angeles, and a blaze in eastern San Diego county, near the Mexican border, where two people were severely burned and several homes were destroyed. Those blazes were 56% and 65% contained, respectively, and all evacuation orders had been lifted.