Residents of a Northern California community that had been threatened by a major wildfire have permission to return to their homes by Wednesday afternoon as crews made substantial progress in fighting the blaze, fire officials said.
Nearly all of the estimated 1,500 residents from 600 homes who had been under mandatory evacuation orders could go back to their houses at 4 p.m. local time, Anthony Brown, spokesman for California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, told Reuters on Wednesday.
