SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A fast-moving fire erupted Friday along the Northern California coast, burning homes, forcing hundreds of residents to flee and backing up traffic for miles on a scenic highway. A number of homes were destroyed, but there was no indication how many. Multiple grass fires appeared to have merged into the larger blaze. In southeastern New Mexico, firefighters were trying to corral a lightning-caused blaze that had scorched 64 square miles of desert grass, shrubs and cacti in the Guadalupe Mountain foothills. Thunderstorms sparked as many as 75 wildfires in a wilderness area in far Northern California on Saturday. Those fires range in size from less than an acre to more than 750 acres. None immediately threatened homes.
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