Crews taming blaze at Lake Tahoe
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - Firefighters began containing a wildfire near California's popular Lake Tahoe resort on Monday after it engulfed 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) and destroyed or damaged more than 200 homes, officials 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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BIG TIMBER, Mont. - Crews battling an enormous wildfire braced for hot, windy weather Monday after hundreds of people were evacuated from the path of the flames.
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By Ryan Huff, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 25--A Contra Costa County fire communications technician has been called up to a staging area for Lake Tahoe's Angora Fire and some of his colleagues may be joining him if the blaze continues to burn out of control.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - High winds expected at California's Lake Tahoe threaten to fan a raging wildfire that jumped a containment line after destroying hundreds of buildings and forcing thousands of people to evacuate the resort area, firefighters said on Wednesday.
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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 DIRK MEISSNER  TELKWA, B.C. (CP) - A forest fire crew battled rising flood waters rather than flames Thursday as northern British Columbians fought feverishly to hold back rising flood waters near Smithers.
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By M.S. Enkoji, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 16--A water trail that hugs the 72-mile shoreline of Lake Tahoe could become the next best way to showcase the magnificent depths of the mountain lake.
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Fire crews work to minimise damage after blaze at Europe's largest cancer hospital
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS  OJAI, Calif. - Helicopters lifted off as winds calmed Sunday, ferrying water and transporting firefighters to battle a three-week-old wildfire that has scorched more than 200 square miles of the Los Padres National Forest.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 26--LAKE TAHOE -- The Angora fire ravaging the South Lake Tahoe area jumped over Highway 89 this afternoon forcing hundreds of residents along Tahoe Keys Drive to fight or flee.
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By Darin Fenger, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Sep. 11--Eleven fire departments continued to battle a stubborn blaze near Bard, Calif., on Sunday evening, pitting humans and water against a fire that had been burning since some time Friday.
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Weeks into a wildfire season that has already burned parts of Catalina Island, Los Angeles and Lake Tahoe, swaths of California's flammable national forests are some days protected by nothing more than luck.
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By Ryan Lillis, M.S. Enkoji and Dorothy Korber, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 27--SOUTH LAKE TAHOE -- One gust and one tree changed the face of the Angora fire Tuesday afternoon as the wind unleashed a new wave of flame that roared toward the lake and sent 2,000 more residents fleeing.
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By Mike Zapler, Rod Foo and Leslie Griffy, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 25--Firefighters near South Lake Tahoe are struggling to contain a wildfire that has already burned 173 homes and scorched more than 2,500 acres.
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Fire crews in Londonderry are tackling a huge blaze which has caused extensive damage at a retail park.
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LOCKWOOD VALLEY, Calif. -- Fire crews guarded homes and ranches Wednesday as a stubborn wildfire that has jumped containment lines crept within a half-mile of hundreds of dwellings.