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Urgent: New evacuation issued for 3rd largest wildfire in California

Xinhua,December 17, 2017 Adjust font size:

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- New evacuation orders were issued in Santa Barbara County on Saturday as the Thomas fire, which is ranked as the 3rd largest wildfire in modern history of the U.S. state of California, threatened Montecito, 160 km northwest of Los Angeles. Enditem