Wildfire burns through mountain community near Redding Firefighters faced a steep challenge Monday as they battled the growing blaze that tore through this old mining town in the mountains west of Redding and headed into rugged terrain filled with open mine shafts and rattlesnakes. The 9,010-acre fire that destroyed 22 homes and two commercial buildings, including the historic International Order of Odd Fellows Hall, was only 10 percent contained as it moved north into heavily timbered canyons dotted with open sores from once-thriving silver and gold mines, said Dottie Cary of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection....