Tahoe Fire Update: Blaze Called Area's Worst in a Century
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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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Wildfire still raging in California, Alaska    LOS ANGELES, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Firefighters were still battling wildfire in the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and at Lake Tahoe in California, which started Tuesday and Sunday respectively, U.S. media reported Sunday.
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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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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ For the past 20 years, wildfires in western states have raged more often and more intensely, an alarming trend that has been blamed mostly on decades of aggressive fire suppression and century-old grazing and logging practices.
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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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Wildfires spread to threaten new areas   Up to 950,000 people already evacuatedOfficials hope winds will aid firefighters todayHelp given by Mexico, state prisoners
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Firefighters were hampered by erratic wind and low humidity as they made slow progress against a fire that had burned nearly 12,000 acres and four houses in the Northern California wine country.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - Fire crews evacuated a neighborhood near California's Lake Tahoe on Tuesday afternoon as the wildfire that has consumed more than 2,700 acres of forest around the resort area jumped a defensive line.
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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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By AP Wire Service  BIG TIMBER, Mont.  -- Lower temperatures and some overnight rain helped slow an enormous wildfire that had destroyed 20 homes and led to evacuation orders for hundreds of people.
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By GIDEON RUBIN  ROSAMOND -- A massive blaze that began Sunday morning scorched more than 6,000 acres of pristine wilderness on the southeast face of the Tehachapi Mountains and showed no signs of slowing down by Monday afternoon, authorities said.
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Description: A major fire Tuesday night in Chicago damaged the historic LaSalle Bank Building. The art deco structure was originally known as the Field Building, when it went up in the early 1930&#39;s.
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By Erik Lacayo, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 10--A 3,900-acre fire that has been raging for a week in the Sequoia National Forest is finally winding down, a U.S. Forest Service official said Saturday.
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Wildfires feeding on the driest brush in years erupted across Southern California, burning thousands of acres.
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A fast-growing wildfire whipped up by 50-mph winds consumed about 100 acres early Sunday amid dry conditions in northeast Los Angeles County, authorities said.
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The fire that destroyed or damaged much of a new housing subdivision last month in the worst case of residential arson in the state's history.
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GEYSERVILLE, Calif., Sept. 6 -- Firefighters were hampered by erratic wind and low humidity Monday as they made slow progress against a fire that had burned nearly 12,000 acres and four houses in the Northern California wine country.