Firefighters in California, America, are keeping up their battle to bring two huge blazes that are threatening two towns under control.
More than 10,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Concow and Paradise.
The blazes have charred nearly 49,000 acres and burned about 60 buildings.
The fires are part of more than 300 wildfires burning across California after lightning storms swept across the state sparking blazes in wilderness.
About 20,000 people, many of them volunteers, have been fighting the blazes.
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Although this spate of blazes makes it the biggest fire crisis in Californian history, so far no-one has died as a direct result and only about 100 homes have been destroyed in total.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked the President George Bush for more firefighters.
The former film star said: "California is in the midst of battling unprecedented wildfires that have stretched our state's firefighting resources to their limit and placed thousands of Californians in immediate danger."
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