Haifa blaze subdued as crews battle more fires

Israeli firefighters have reined in a blaze that had spread across the country's third-largest city of Haifa and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes, but continued to battle more than a dozen other fires around the country.

Some of the 60,000 evacuated people began trickling back to their charred homes to assess the damage as police and firefighting units remained heavily deployed in the Haifa area for fear that the fire could be reignited by dry, windy weather.