Weather Slows California Wildfires; Thousands Allowed Home

California wildfires were slowly being corralled Friday as weather improved and reinforcements aided firefighters, tens of thousands of people return home.
Weather Slows California Wildfires; Thousands Allowed Home
Artist Marcia Ritz, 77, leaves after looking through the rubble of her manufactured home at the Spanish Flat Mobile Villa trailer park in Lake Berryessa, Calif., on Aug. 27, 2020. Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group via AP
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SAN FRANCISCO—California wildfires were slowly being corralled Friday as cooler, humid weather and reinforcements aided firefighters and tens of thousands of people were allowed back home after days of death and destruction.

In the past two days, evacuation orders were lifted for at least 50,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area and wine country, officials with the state fire agency, Cal Fire, said.