A "super scooper" air tanker makes water drops as firefighters battle a fast-moving California wildfire in the hills of Glendora on Thursday. The wildfire, called the Colby Fire, started accidentally by three campers, roared out of control in foothills above Los Angeles on Thursday, destroying at least two homes and forcing more than 1,000 residents to flee, fire and law enforcement officials said. The wind-whipped blaze erupted before dawn in the Angeles National Forest north of Glendora, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, about 40 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.

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