By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Several thousand suburban San Diego residents forced to flee a wildfire threatening their towns were allowed to return home early on Friday as firefighters battled for a third day against a swarm of blazes burning in and around California's second-largest city. By morning, fire crews managed to establish containment lines around 10 percent of the fiercest of the blazes, the so-called Cocos fire, which has charred more than 3,000 acres of tinder-dry brush since it erupted on Wednesday near the San Diego County communities of San Marcos and Escondido, fire officials said. A U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman speaking for the region's fire command said crews had gained "a pretty good handle" on eight other blazes around San Diego County that had forced as many as 125,000 people from their homes during the week. Evacuation orders were lifted early Friday for some 4,600 people living in two San Marcos-area neighborhoods but remained in effect for the bulk of homes threatened by the Cocos fire, county emergency management and fire officials said.
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