(AP-VOA) A wildfire roared through parts of Haifa, Israel's third-largest city, on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes and prompting a call-up of military reservists to join police and firefighters. Spreading quickly due to dry, windy weather, the fire raced through Haifa's northern neighborhoods. The blaze was the largest of several fires to erupt across the country in recent days. A spokesman for Israel's fire and rescue service, Yoram Levy, told Channel 2 that the fires in Haifa "are probably arson,'' and that there was an attempt to torch a fire station.
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