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Weather Will Help Firefighters Battling La Tuna Fire

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The weather is expected to cooperate with the efforts of more than a thousand firefighters work for a fourth day to put out the seven-thousand-acre brush fire
Forecasters say we’ll have clouds all day, humidity around 40 percent, light winds and much cooler temperatures in the upper 80s.
The La Tuna Fire is 30 percent contained.  All mandatory evacuations have been lifted by the cities of Burbank, Glendale and in Los Angeles.  Two firefighters taken to hospitals during the second day of the fire for heat-related illnesses were stable, said Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Ralph Terrazas. A third firefighters was treated for a heat-related illness Sunday, a fourth was treated for burns and a volunteer Community Emergency Response Team member was medically evaluated although the nature of the illness was not released.

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