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Article text courtesy of nytimes.com. “California’s fires are stretching crews and stranding evacuees.”

As another day of wildfire fighting began in California on Friday, fire crews were seeing a few glimmers of hope. Smoke from the Caldor fire raging southwest of Lake Tahoe had been helping to choke off the spread of flames, for instance, and the pace of evacuations was easing.

But the state’s battle against summer wildfires is far from over.

Many of the biggest blazes around California were still much less than 50 percent contained as of Friday evening. Fire crews were stretched precariously thin. The air quality around Sacramento and San Francisco, fouled by wildfire smoke, was expected to remain poor. And officials warned that it could be days or weeks before people who fled from the Caldor fire were allowed back into their homes.