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1280 X 1118 According to Reuters News Service, at least 13 people have been killed in the state's deadliest outbreak of fires in more than a decade. About 30,000 homes were endangered by the fires, driven by warm Santa Ana winds, which had consumed more than 330,000 acres, or 500 square miles — almost half the size of the state of Rhode Island — of dense, dry brush and trees. More than 7,000 firefighters battled the spreading flames.