Plane crash south of Bakersfield sparks wildfire in California

Monday, September 5, 2011 | 8:18 a.m. CDT; updated 7:54 p.m. CDT, Monday, September 5, 2011

TEHACHAPI, Calif. — Residents of at least 100 homes were forced to flee after a small plane crashed and burst into flames, killing two people on board and igniting a fast-moving brush fire that burned early Monday near a California mountain community.

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