Red Cross Accounts for Unused Rooms

The American Red Cross said Thursday that it paid $688,000 for hotel rooms that went unused during last year's wildfires in Southern California. The charity said in a statement that it paid for 6,074 "room nights" at San Diego-area hotels that went unused _ about 22 percent of the 27,714 total nights booked during the wildfires, which destroyed nearly 2,200 homes and killed 10 people.