Residents Flee Raging Lake Tahoe Fire
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By Aaron C. Davis  MEYERS, Calif. - A raging wildfire near Lake Tahoe on Monday forced hundreds of residents to flee towering flames that destroyed more than 200 buildings, turned the sky orange and fouled the lake's famously clear waters with falling ash.
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A wildfire near Lake Tahoe was 40 percent contained Tuesday morning, but authorities said it still threatened more than 1,000 structures.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - Firefighters have prevented a six-day-old wildfire near California's Lake Tahoe from spreading into some of the resort area's most densely populated neighborhoods, officials said on Friday.
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Hundreds of tourists fled vacation homes and hotels Thursday when a forest fire swept across the island of Skiathos as hot, dry conditions persisted across Greece, authorities said.
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By Mike Zapler, Rod Foo and Leslie Griffy, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 25--A massive wildfire is burning toward South Lake Tahoe today. The fire has scorched more than 2,500 acres, destroying more than 225 buildings and forcing hundreds of residents to flee from their homes.
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Residents of several hundred homes, including Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch, were asked to evacuate as a wildfire in the mountains of Santa Barbara's wine country threatened to shift in the wind, a fire official said Tuesday.
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Authorities delayed responding to a wildfire that destroyed 254 homes last month because two emergency dispatchers initially dismissed 911 calls reporting the Lake Tahoe blaze, transcripts released Friday show.
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Some 35,000 people have fled their homes as forest wildfires force a state of emergency in southern California.
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By George Kelly, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 25--Authorities have blocked off highways leading to the Angora Fire burning southwest of Lake Tahoe this morning.
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Authorities evacuated at least 200 homes as a fast-moving brush fire scorched 300 acres of parched hillside Sunday and crept into backyards, Orange County fire officials said.
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A wind-fueled wildfire roared through an old mining town near Redding on Sunday, destroying 20 homes and forcing nearly 125 residents to flee, officials said. The blaze broke out Saturday afternoon and quickly grew to 2,500 acres, sweeping through the mountain community of French Gulch, about 20 miles east of Redding, said Linda Galvan, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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Thousands of homes in Idaho are evacuated as a wildfire spreads quickly, threatening a US Air Force base.
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Brush fires that appeared to be the work of arsonists burned out of control Sunday along the coast of Hawaii's largest island, sending hundreds of people fleeing inland, officials said.
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Fire officials have evacuated hundreds of people from their homes as wildfires raged through Northern California and Montana.
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FRENCH GULCH, Calif. Aug. 17, 2004  Residents turned toward rebuilding even as the wildfire that had swept through their historic mining town continued blazing out of control nearby Tuesday.
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Sparked by lightning and fanned by erratic winds, a wildfire in western Colorado has spread to within a half mile of a 400-home subdivision, forcing evacuations, fire officials said on Tuesday.
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Residents of about 200 southern California homes were ordered to evacuate on Sunday as a brush fire whipped by hot gusting winds burned 500 acres near a hillside community, firefighters said.