Winds fanning fire
expected to ease
ALPINE, Calif. - A fire that tore across 10,230 acres of drybrush and destroyed at least four houses burned into a second daytoday, but the fierce Santa Ana winds that had fanned the flameswere expected to die down. The blaze in eastern San Diego Countyburned uninhibited for most of Wednesday and was just 10 percentcontained this morning. It was unknown when the fire, which shutdown a highway and two casinos and chased as many as 300 people fromtheir homes, would be fully contained.
The fire started before dawn Wednesday and burned swiftly ingusts up to 65 mph. But the wind was far weaker this morning, andwere expected to …
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