Residents allowed home after N.C. fire
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Residents trickled back into town Saturday after a fire at a hazardous materials plant, relieved that there were no serious injuries or damage to their homes while they were forced out for two nights.
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(French Gulch, California-AP) Aug. 17, 2004 - Some residents who fled a wildfire in an old California mining town will be allowed back home Tuesday to survey the scorched ruins.
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By Steve Lyttle, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jan. 31--Charlotte fire officials say a working smoke alarm helped minimize damage in a Monday night blaze at an east Charlotte apartment.   The blaze struck an apartment in the 4500 block of Perth Court.   Charlotte fire Capt.
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By Frank Norton, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  May 26--Johnston County is telling towns, utilities and residents to cut back on water use this weekend after a volunteer fire department used about 10 percent of the county's reserves overnight.
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By Doug Smith, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Mar. 14--People who find their way to The Woods in Weddington won't be camping out.   This 203-home gated community on one of the town's largest wooded tracts -- about 275 acres -- will be an exclusive retreat for well-heeled buyers.
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By Patrick Mcdermott, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Dec. 18--FORT WALTON BEACH -- A fire destroyed a home early Sunday in a neighborhood off Beal Parkway.  The Fort Walton Beach Fire Department responded to 36 Shell Ave.
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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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By Matt Dees, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 24--DURHAM -- The fire at the Durham Yard Waste Compost Facility -- the cause of respiratory problems among frustrated neighbors as it burned for 13 days -- was extinguished Saturday.
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More than 17,000 people were urged to flee their homes on the outskirts of Raleigh early Friday after a thunderous series of explosions and a raging fire at a hazardous-waste disposal plant released a plume of thick black smoke and a yellow cloud of noxious gases.
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By David Silverstein, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Sep. 11--DRACUT -- Firefighters from six communities couldn't save a single-family home in Dracut after a fast-moving fire tore through the house Saturday afternoon.
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A North Yorkshire stately home is almost destroyed by fire in the early hours, the fire service says.
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By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep.
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Thousands of Californians forced from their neighborhoods by this week's wind-whipped wildfires returned home on Friday, some of them finding their property unscathed amid the destruction and others discovering nothing but blackened rubble.
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It should have been good news. Residents of a mobile home park in southern Fairfax County had just learned that they wouldn't have to move to make way for gleaming new townhouses.
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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 The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 22--APEX -- Town police evacuated several units at a townhouse subdivision Thursday after an officer responding to a complaint found explosive materials in an apartment.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 10--Emergency management officials in Johnston County enlisted a state helicopter equipped with a heat-sensing capability to fly over a smoldering debris dump fire Friday and identify hot spots.