Manpower Taxed By Flames Firefighters Building Line Around Blaze
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By ALEX DOBUZINSKIS and PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff Writers  CASTAIC -- Hoping to contain the massive 15-day-old Day Fire, firefighters are constructing a 50-mile line around its flanks -- defying walls of flame that are devouring wilderness as they charge toward a half-dozen communities.
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Firefighters made some headway against an enormous wildfire that has chased hundreds of residents from their homes, but officials warned it is far from being contained.
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Firefighters, volunteers and aircraft tackle forest blazes that have caused widespread death and destruction.
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By Shannon Dininny Associated Press  STEHEKIN, Wash. - Firefighters cut trees and vegetation Tuesday to try slowing the growth of an 11-square-mile wildfire that has chased summer tourists from this rural, mountainous region.
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Two dozen firefighters died last year battling wildfires across the nation, a number that has increased in the face of drier summers and increased job pressures.
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Firefighters tackle a blaze at a sheltered housing development in Edinburgh and at least 20 residents will be rehoused.
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Firefighters are at the scene of a blaze which spread from a caravan and forced the evacuation of nine people.
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By TOM GARDNER  RENO, Nev. - Improved weather and more manpower helped fire crews hold the line against two fires burning more than 407 square miles in northeastern Nevada on Saturday.
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By SHANNON DININNY  STEHEKIN, Wash. - Firefighters cut trees and vegetation Tuesday to try slowing the growth of an 11-square-mile wildfire that has chased summer tourists from this rural, mountainous region.
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Firefighters were battling a massive fire following an explosion Wednesday morning.
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WASHINGTON _ Wildfires around California's Lake Tahoe and Alaska's Kenai Peninsula are fanning the firefighting costs that officials are trying to curtail.
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Firefighters cut trees and vegetation Tuesday to try slowing the growth of an 11-square-mile wildfire that has chased summer tourists from this rural, mountainous region.
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All but two of what had been 24 blazes are now more than half contained, bringing firefighters close to claiming victory.
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Firefighters try to stop a blaze spreading as three homes in one street are alight and four people are reported injured.
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Crews used controlled fires to gain ground against an 1,800-acre blaze in western Colorado, but forecasters predicted more hot, dry weather and wind gusts on Thursday.
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Improved weather and more manpower helped fire crews hold the line against two fires burning more than 407 square miles in northeastern Nevada on Saturday.
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Crews fighting a 4,200-acre wildfire outside of Sedona were burning vegetation in an effort to strengthen a protection line and clear the way for more evacuees to return home.