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Show .FOflEST FlflES RAGED.! COAST FIRE FIGHTERS RUSHED FROM LOS ANGCLES TO HELP COMBAT FIRE Florors Threaten Ranch Houses of Sonomo County; High Winds Fan Fire Covering Twenty Thousand Acres Santa Ibma, Oalif., Fanned by hJgh winds a great forest firo was swooping Sonoma county ranches Monday. Already a half dozen IJg ranches have leen swept by the flames including the Stato of California Califor-nia Sock ranch. Hundreds of firo fighters recruited from Uio farms nnd towns are staging stag-ing a desperate fight to save Fen-wood Fen-wood springs, a summer resort, around which are located muny sum. mer homes. Santa Barbara, Fire fighters were rushed here Monday from Los Angeles Angel-es to help fight the furious forest lre on the north slope of the Santa Ynez mountain range, where scores of mountain ranch homes are in the path of the flames. The fire is said to have burned over 20,000 acres during the last 24 hours. Officers in charge of fighting the fire are now preiwiring to cut huge breaks several miles in advance oi the flames. |