Children were evacuated from the Weed Elementary School in Weed, Calif., in front of a sky filled with smoke from a nearby wildfire on Monday. The wind-whipped wildfire laid siege to Weed, a California town at the foot of Mount Shasta, destroying a church, damaging or leveling 100 homes and forcing authorities to order about half the people to leave.
School Children Evacuated as Wildfire Looms in California
A wind-whipped wildfire raged through Weed, Calif. on Monday.