In fire zone, lots of experience
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Veterans of earlier fires are sharing practical lessons on recovery and rebuilding.
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Russia trained Shamil Basayev to fight fires, but he has made a career igniting them. As a firefighter, he served an unremarkable two-year term in the Soviet military after he was drafted.
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MOSCOW -- Russia trained Shamil Basayev to fight fires, but he has made a career igniting them.
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Firefighters kept watch on the weather Tuesday as they lined up trucks and other equipment to defend a residential area from a wildfire that had forced the evacuation of 30 homes.
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Firefighters, volunteers and aircraft tackle forest blazes that have caused widespread death and destruction.
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Everyone got out alive, the train operator did as he was trained and the passengers did as they were told. Still, that a small fire on a major commuter line could leave passengers gasping for air and send 152 of them to the hospital highlights just how vulnerable transit systems are to disaster.
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By Peyton Whitely, Seattle Times  Feb. 2--About 50 firefighters from seven Eastside fire departments engaged in a deadly serious exercise Thursday -- practicing for a terrorist attack at a plant where lethal chemicals are used.
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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 GORDON JACKSON  KINGSLAND -- A wildfire stretching from Waycross to Lake City, Fla., has surpassed the 600,000-acre milestone and is still growing.  The question is how much bigger will it get.
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By CATHERINE TSAI NEW CASTLE, Colo. - If those ordered from their homes near a 1,000-acre fire in western Colorado left without a fuss, it could be because they've experienced the devastation of wildfires before.
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By REX BOWMAN  Firefighters battling a five-day-old, 900-acre blaze in stiff winds and steep terrain near the Virginia-Kentucky line pinned it down yesterday with help from a light snow.
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COLEVILLE, Calif. - Firefighters on Thursday reported big gains in controlling a wildfire that had forced residents to flee this scenic eastern Sierra Nevada community.
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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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Fire crews in Londonderry are tackling a huge blaze which has caused extensive damage at a retail park.
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An infusion of fresh manpower helped firefighters gain the upper hand Tuesday on a wildfire that had burned across more than 12,500 acres and destroyed four homes in Northern California's wine country.
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By Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Feb. 20--A firefighter works to put out a grass fire off Woodruff Lane near Matthews Lane in Yuba County on Monday.
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