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Two killed in California fires

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Wildfires around Los Angeles have left two people dead and forced 12,000 to flee their homes, with firefighters fighting the blazes with water and chemicals.

Paul Hartwell from the Los Angeles Country Fire Department explained the priority was to clear people from the homes in the path of the fire.

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