Wildfires barrel toward Northern California lake towns

Nearly 20,000 residents given orders to evacuate

Don Jones, center, a firefighter with the Cal Fire Mendocino Unit, works with a rake as a wildfire reaches a road Monday, July 30, 2018, in Lakeport, Calif. A pair of wildfires that prompted evacuation orders for thousands of people are barreling toward small lake towns in Northern California. - photo by Associated Press

Northern California wildfires — Don Jones, center, a firefighter with the Cal Fire Mendocino Unit, works with a rake as a wildfire reaches a road Monday, July 30, 2018, in Lakeport, Calif. A pair of wildfires that prompted evacuation orders for thousands of people are barreling toward small lake towns in Northern California. - photo by Associated Press

LAKEPORT, Calif. — A pair of wildfires that prompted evacuation orders for nearly 20,000 people barreled Monday toward small lake towns in Northern California, and authorities faced questions about how quickly they warned residents about the largest and deadliest blaze burning in the state.

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