The fires, many caused by lightning and sometimes pushed by strong winds, had burned hundreds of thousands of acres as they chewed through brushland, rural areas, canyon country and dense forest to the north, east and south of San Francisco. Fires also carved their way through the wine country and the Sierra Nevada.Above, flames from the LNU Lightning Complex fires jump Interstate 80 in Vacaville, Calif.The highway was closed in both directions shortly afterward.
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