Fire at California's Lake Tahoe destroys homes
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - A fast-moving forest fire burned out of control in the popular Lake Tahoe resort area on the eastern border of California, destroying more than 165 homes and structures, officials said on Sunday.
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Wildfires Sunday charred parts of the exclusive seaside town of Malibu and forced evacuations of million-dollar homes of many top Hollywood stars, while a man was killed fighting another southern California blaze, authorities said.
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Powerful winds fanned a wildfire burning through the canyons of the seaside celebrity enclave of Malibu on Sunday, forcing hundreds of people to flee and destroying a handful of multimillion-dollar homes.
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 -- Massive brush fires spread across Southern California on Monday, destroying homes from north of Los Angeles to south of San Diego, leaping freeways and sending hundreds of thousands of residents scrambling to flee their homes sometimes seconds ahead of advancing flames.
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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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Fast-moving wildfires in southern California destroyed several homes Sunday, killed one person in San Diego County and closed the Pacific Coast Highway at Malibu. Four firefighters and four civilians were also hurt in the southeastern part of San Diego county.
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Hundreds of people were evacuated on Sunday from the posh Californian city of Malibu after wildfires destroyed several homes and threatened to set ablaze a university, fire officials said
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Towering wildfires burned out of control across Southern California for a third day on Tuesday as 500,000 people fled the San Diego area and firefighters made a desperate stand to save a mountain town ringed by flames.
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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.
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Wildfires blown by fierce desert winds Monday reduced scores of Southern California homes to ashes, forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee and laid a hellish, spidery pattern of luminous orange over the drought-stricken region.
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Firefighters battled out-of-control wildfires in southern California on Tuesday that forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and prompted the deployment of National Guard soldiers.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - Firefighters had a wildfire near California's popular Lake Tahoe resort 40 percent contained on Monday after it engulfed 2,500 acres
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Weeks into a wildfire season that has already burned parts of Catalina Island, Los Angeles and Lake Tahoe, swaths of California's flammable national forests are some days protected by nothing more than luck.
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Wildfires burned unchecked on Tuesday in Southern California from Santa Barbara to the Mexican border, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to evacuate, at least 700 homes destroyed, and little hope for relief from the hot desert winds fanning the flames.
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By ANA BEATRIZ CHOLO ANAHEIM, Calif. - A fast-moving brush fire scorched 500 acres of parched hillside and crept into backyards Sunday, forcing authorities to evacuate more than 200 homes, Orange County fire officials said.
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A wind-fueled grass fire destroyed three homes Thursday night, west of where crews gained ground on a separate 1,240-acre mountain wildfire, firefighters said.
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With ash drifting down and the Tahoe Basin bathed in milky smoke, firefighters were grateful late Monday that the biggest disaster in the region's history wasn't even more disastrous.  If the treacherous Sierra winds kick up again, however, all bets are off.