California fires: new blaze near LA, progress up north

Firefighters in California battled a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare "extreme" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region.The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the Reagan library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,300 acres (526 hectares), officials said."The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushe