Wildfires are spreading so quickly that firefighters couldn’t hope to stop them. One quadrupled in size yesterday after destroying several thousand buildings and leveling much of a Northern California town of nearly 30,000 people. LEO’s report that at least nine people were found dead in vehicles torched by wildfire flames as they tried to escape. A wind-driven wildfire also raged through Southern California communities on Friday, burning homes and forcing thousands of people to flee as it relentlessly pushed toward Malibu and the Pacific Ocean.