Wildfires Barrel Toward Northern California Lake Towns

The number of people ordered to flee from twin Northern California wildfires in Mendocino and Lake counties has swelled to 15,000, authorities said Monday as flames rolled toward several small towns in a rural area of lakes, forests and mountains. Elsewhere in the same region, firefighters were hopeful that the state’s largest and deadliest blaze of the year, the Carr Fire, was slowing down after days of explosive growth. Jodi Hernandez, Jeff Ranieri and Cheryl Hurd report.