California Highway Partially Reopens After Fire
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Interstate 5 was shut down Tuesday as a result of a fire that has been burning in remote woodlands northwest of Los Angeles since Labor Day.
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Cooler temperatures and higher humidity helped firefighters Monday as they got closer to fully containing one of the largest wildfires in California history.
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Traffic resumed Friday afternoon through Glenwood Canyon after crews cleared a section of Interstate 70 heavily damaged in a large Thanksgiving Day rockslide.
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By MARTIN GRIFFITH  RENO, Nev. - For the first time in three months, firefighters in northeastern Nevada may get a chance to catch their breath.  Crews nearly contained the last of two wildfires that have burned more than 407 square miles since Sept.
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Luckily, stretch of Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon had been closed due to a truck accident. Modern travel through the Rockies means coping with snow, rock slides.
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FALLBROOK, California  - Cool weather and light winds helped thousands of firefighters beat back Southern California wildfires on Saturday as residents ventured through charred landscapes to see if their homes were still standing.
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While life began returning to normal in parts of Southern California today, more than 20,000 homes are still at risk from several large blazes.
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A lull in strong winds fanning one of the largest wildfires in California history helped firefighters as they battled to bring the blaze under control, state officials said.
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Wildfire-hit California prepares for at least another 24 hours of high winds and scorching temperatures.
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By George Kelly, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 5--Firefighters extinguished a single-alarm house fire this morning, a Contra Costa Fire Protection District dispatcher said.   The fire began just before 5 a.m. in the 12200 block of Byron Highway, the dispatcher said.
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OJAI, Calif. - Fire crews made an all-out effort Thursday to surround a two-week-old wildfire before hot, dry Santa Ana winds arrived to renew its ferocity.  At the same time, they made progress against two smaller blazes also burning in national forests.
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A weekend of good weather means the fires are finally on the wane  -  and the time to ask how California coped is here
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A 30-mile (48-km) stretch of the lower Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi, should reopen to traffic later on Friday after a barge carrying crude oil collided with a bridge and caught fire, said the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Though a Federal Aviation Administration radio communications failure has not yet been fixed, administration spokesman Mike Fergus reports that flights are being allowed back into southern California.
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California firefighters made headway in reining in 18 wildfires on Wednesday as hot winds abated and San Diego said it hoped to let some of the 500,000 evacuees start returning home.
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OJAI, Calif. -- Firefighters lost ground Sunday against a large blaze in a national forest as gusty winds fanned the flames, shutting down highways and prompting officials to urge evacuations.
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Some of the residents evacuated from scenic Oak Creek Canyon because of a 4,200-acre wildfire returned to their homes Saturday, while officials reopened two roads in the Grand Canyon.