Wildfires in California, New Mexico force hundreds of evacuations

Hundreds of people have evacuated to escape a wildfire in Southern California and a larger blaze in rural New Mexico, officials said Thursday Santa Barbara Sheriff Bill Brown told a news conference his deputies had asked occupants of 400 homes and businesses to evacuate structures The blaze, which ignited on Wednesday in a wilderness area northwest of Santa Barbara, has consumed chaparral and tall grass in the Los Padres National Forest