Wildfires burned – to the edge of three small northern California towns over the weekend.  Thousands of homes are now threatened and residents have retreated to emergency shelters.

“All we can do is pray” said one evacuee Jerry Nottingham.

“These are the largest number of homes we’ve had threatened so far this year,” said state fire spokesman Daniel Berlant.

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