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AP: Wildfires near containment

All fires were expected to be surrounded by Tuesday, if not as early as Monday evening, Tuttle said.

Efforts were rapidly turning to preventing mudslides and flooding. [ It's gonna be one of *those* winters.]

The 91,000-acre Old Fire, the last of the blazes to threaten communities, was 83 percent contained as it smoldered in forest atop the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles.

Elsewhere, San Diego County's 280,000-plus-acre Cedar Fire was at 99 percent containment, while the 56,700-acre Paradise Fire was at 75 percent; San Bernardino County's Grand Prix Fire was at 97 percent after burning more than 59,000 acres; and the 64,000-acre Piru Fire in Ventura County was 85 percent surrounded.

San Bernardino Sun: Wildfire-ravaged hillsides could spawn mudslides; Evacuees return to find heart-wrenching scenes

pe.com (reg required) Bush visit won't include Inland (he had just been inland for a visit before the fires)