Reuters: Firefighters were hopeful of making progress on Sunday in slowing a deadly wildfire that has raged for 10 days near California’s Big Sur coast, destroying dozens of homes and forcing hundreds of residents and campers to evacuate. The so-called Soberanes Fire, which erupted on July 22 just south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, has already scorched 38,000 acres (15,378 hectares) of parched chaparral and timberland in and around the Los Padres National Forest. Officials said on Sunday that weather conditions…

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