Luxury LA mansions threatened as fierce California wildfires rage
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A WIND-WHIPPED wildfire raged on Wednesday into a wealthy southern California neighbourhood, destroying at least six homes, threatening hundreds more and scorching a building at a winery owned by billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
The so-called Skirball Fire, which erupted early on Wednesday, was the latest in a rash of major blazes fuelled by hot, dry Santa Ana winds. It had burned about 60 hectares near large estates in the Bel-Air neighbourhood of Los Angeles by early afternoon, and was only 5 per cent contained.
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