Calmer weather allowed crews to increase containment on wildfires after a three-week siege of gusts fanned blazes across California and led utilities to cut power to prevent winds from blowing branches into electric lines and igniting an inferno.

About 156,000 people were under evacuation orders because of the fire, mostly from the city of Santa Rosa.

The nearly 5,900-acre La Tuna Fire has destroyed three homes and damaged one.