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Firefighters continued Thursday mopping up the Ranch fire, which has burned close to 55,800 acres between Castaic and Fillmore since it began Saturday night.
Most of the flames have been knocked down, and firefighters had cut containment lines around 80 percent of the burned area by Thursday night, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
Some firefighters were released to work on other fires this week, but 905 firefighters continued working Thursday to extinguish the remainder of the flare-ups and make sure the fire is out.
The blaze destroyed one home and eight outbuildings, said Ventura County Fire Department spokesman Tom Kruschke. One abandoned mobile home in Ventura County was among the structures destroyed.
By Thursday, the bill for fighting the blaze had reached $7 million. The cause of the fire is still unknown.
Nine fires across the state were still less than 100 percent contained by Thursday afternoon, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The Malibu Canyon fire, which destroyed or damaged 22 structures, is 100 percent contained. Costs for that fire had risen to $5.2 million.
The Ventura County Fire Department has sent 14 engine companies and 21 other individuals to help with fires still burning around the state, department spokesman Bill Nash said.
The Oxnard Fire Department sent three engine companies to blazes including the Grass Valley fire near Lake Arrowhead, spokeswoman Deborah Shane said.
Other departments around the county sent a total of four engine companies to other fires.
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