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California's Rim Fire now 20 Percent Contained, but Homes and Resources Still Threatened
California's Rim Fire, which now covers an area larger than Chicago, continues to burn though the Stanislaus National Forest and a portion of Yosemite National Park, but firefighters have more of a handle on the enormous wildfire than at any point to-date.
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