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LAKE HUGHES, Calif. — Despite withering summer heat, thousands of firefighters aided by planes slowly gained ground Wednesday against California wildfires (search) that have burned more than 18,500 acres of brush and forest and caused hundreds of people to evacuate homes. Wet weather headed into the region, bringing hope of relief but also raising fears of flash flooding and new lightning-caused fires. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (search) authorized funds for some of the blazes, which were burning in Los Angeles County, to the east in Riverside County, to the south in San Diego County and in Yosemite National Park (search) in the Sierra Nevada. One of the most difficult fires, 4,700 acres in Angeles National Forest on the edge of the Mojave Desert, was 46 percent contained. The fire in Pine Canyon prompted voluntary and mandatory evacuations of more than 500 homes Tuesday, and an outbuilding and motor home were destroyed
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