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Firefighter Brian Britton throws a flare toward a hillside during a backburn operation in Big Sur, Calif., on Sunday. Cooler weather helped firefighters advance on a two-week-old blaze that has destroyed 22 homes in Big Sur, at the northern end of the Los Padres National Forest. Wildfires have burned more than 800 square miles in California.
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