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homes, a cabin, a garage and about a half-dozen vehicles, the U.S. Forest Service said in a statement Tuesday.
• The wildfire started Monday between Palm Springs and Hemet, near the rural Riverside County community of Mountain Center, and a day later had surged to about 14 square miles.
• More than 2,200 firefighters and 25 aircraft had the blaze 10 percent contained.
• It was mostly moving east toward the desert and away from small communities of homes, summer cabins and ranches in the San Jacinto mountains. But a shift in the wind could easily sweep it back toward homes, authorities said.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Wednesday, July 17, the 198th day of 2013. There are 167 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 17, 1918, Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
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• On this date:
• In 1763, American entrepreneur John Jacob Astor was born in Walldorf in present-day Germany.
• In 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
• In 1862, during the Civil War, Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines were to be set free.
• In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic.
• In 1938, aviator Douglas Corrigan took off from New York, saying he was headed for California; he ended up in Ireland, supposedly by accident, earning the nickname "Wrong Way Corrigan."
• In 1944, during World War II, 320 men, two-thirds of them African-Americans, were killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California.
• In 1955, Disneyland had its opening day in Anaheim, Calif.
• In 1962, the United States conducted its last atmospheric nuclear test to date, detonating a 20-kiloton device, code-named Little Feller I, at the Nevada Test Site.
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