Hundreds Evacuated Near Montana Fire
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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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BIG TIMBER, Mont. - Heavy smoke slowed firefighters battling a 280-square-mile wildfire Tuesday, and also prompted air-quality warnings for much of the western portion of the state.
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LIVINGSTON, Mont. - Strong winds that had caused a fire in an area popular with celebrities to nearly triple in size shifted Thursday and helped slow the blaze's growth, allowing some residents who had evacuated to return.
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A fire broke out near Vice President Dick Cheney's ceremonial office in a building next to the White House on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate.
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A nearly 2,300-acre wildfire forced residents of three small communities to flee their northern New Mexico homes on Sunday.
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A wildfire that has forced the evacuation of hundreds of expensive homes and once threatened the Sun Valley ski area was expected to be fully contained Monday, a fire manager said.
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Firefighters were in the final stage Sunday of surrounding one of the biggest blazes in state history, which has burned 254 square miles of brush and timber since erupting Labor Day.
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A 6,600-acre wildfire forced the evacuation of more than a hundred homes in rural San Diego County, and authorities warned Monday that two other communities with a total of 1,350 homes could be next.
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Firefighters were on Monday battling to contain a raging forest fire near California&#39;s Lake Tahoe that destroyed as many as 220 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,000 people, officials said.
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A wildfire fueled by dry brush grew to nearly 30,000 acres Tuesday and prompted the voluntary evacuation of a remote community near Lake Berryessa in northern California.
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Authorities lifted an evacuation order for this mountaintop community as crews came close to snuffing out a wildfire that scorched more than 14,000 acres in the San Bernardino National Forest.
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Thousands of people were ordered to evacuate today as wildfires continued to spread across Southern California.
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By R. SCOTT RAPPOLD THE GAZETTE  A murky pall hovered over the Pikes Peak region Wednesday, caused by smoke from dozens of wildfires burning more than 600 miles away.
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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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The last evacuation orders have been lifted for hundreds of residents and firefighters were being sent home Monday after reaching 85 percent containment of a wildfire south of Casper.
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Thousands of people were evacuated on Friday from their homes in Apex, North Carolina, after a chemical fire sent a toxic cloud over the Raleigh suburb, emergency officials said.
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BOISE, Idaho  - An advance of the 35,386-acre Castle Rock Fire forced about 1,000 people from their homes in the resort town of Ketchum, Idaho, said officials with the forest service on Sunday.