Firefighters managed to keep a stubborn wildfire in Los Angeles County away from hundreds of canyon homes, while their colleagues made progress against other blazes that have burned more than 40,000 acres of California brush and forest.
Nearly 1,600 homes have been evacuated since the fire began Saturday in northern Los Angeles County. It had spread across about 6,000 acres by Monday evening and was 45 percent contained by firefighters using helicopters, bulldozers and hand crews working in 90-degree heat.
The blaze was ignited when a red-tailed hawk flew into a power line and its flaming bod
