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 　　Huge Wildfire Portending Bad Calif. Fire Season

　　Firefighters reported some progress Tuesday against a gigantic blaze on the edge of Los Angeles, but warned that this one might be just a preview of even greater dangers ahead. (1)The worst fires typically flare up in the fall, when ferocious Santa Ana winds can drive fires out of wilderness areas and into suburbs. As a result, Southern California could be in for a long wildfire season.

　　"You see a fire burning like this, with no Santa Ana winds. (2)" said Los Angeles County fire Capt. Mark Whaling.

　　The Santa Anas are so devastating when they carry fire because they sweep down from the north and reach withering speeds as they squeeze through wilderness canyons(峡谷) and passes and plunge into developed areas.

　　Even though winds have been mostly calm since the blaze began along the northern fringe of Los Angeles and its suburbs, the flames have spread over 190 square miles of forest in a week. (3)

　　But it was not the only significant blaze in Southern California.

　　In the inland region east of Los Angeles, 2,000 homes were being threatened by a fire of more than 1.5 square miles in the San Bernardino County community of Oak Glen, and a nearby 1.3-square-mile blaze was putting 900 homes at risk in Yucaipa.

　　"There's action everywhere," (4)

　　The big fire, known as the Station Fire, was just 5 percent surrounded, but U.S. Forest Service incident commander Mike Dietrich said that figure could double by the end of the day, and he was pleased with progress.

　　"There's a lot more work to be done," Dietrich said. "It's still a very treacherous situation. (5)"

　　A.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said as a helicopter interrupted his comments at a news conference in San Bernardino County.

　　B. The peak Southern California fire season hasn't even started yet.

　　C. It could still turn around.

　　D. So you know that with wind. it would be so much worse, so much more intense.

　　E. Dietrich said people who choose to stay take their lives in their own hands.

　　F. Some 12,000 homes remained threatened as 3,600 firefighters and aircraft battled the blaze across a 50-mile line.

　　正确答案:BDFAC