California fire destroys mobile homes as 11,000 firefighters battle blazes

• Dry and windy weather hampers efforts to fight dozens of fires
• Dixie fire, California's biggest, only 35% contained

Dry and windy weather hampered efforts to contain destructive fires that are devouring the bone-dry forests of drought-stricken northern California, as a small wildfire swept through a mobile home park, leaving dozens of homes in ashes and injuring at least one person.

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