Windy Ridge fire Update from AOL News
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By ANA BEATRIZ CHOLO
AP
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Cool morning weather helped firefighters get ahead of a wind-driven wildfire Monday that was threatening hillside houses southeast of Los Angeles.
The 3-square-mile blaze had damaged two homes but was 80 percent contained by midmorning, up from just 30 percent early in the day, fire officials reported.
At daybreak Monday, the temperature was still in the upper 50s, compared to Sunday's highs near 100. 'The weather is cooperating at this point,' Orange County Fire Capt. Ian MacDonald said.
Dry, windy weather remained a concern for the rest of the day, though, said Orange County Battalion Chief Ed Fleming. The National Weather Service forecast temperatures in the 80s and 90s.
'It is going to cause some challenges for the firefighters, but they are going to work through the day and through the night to make sure it is contained by tomorrow,' Fleming said.
A red flag alert, indicating high fire danger, remained in effect in much of Southern California, where a prolonged drought has made the chaparral-covered hills highly combustible.
'In Southern California, we're always 24 hours away from having a wind-driven, low humidity fire,' MacDonald said.
The wildfire was"
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