Maine Forest Rangers Sent to Wildfires in Quebec
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By FROM STAFF REPORTS  AUGUSTA - In response to a spate of lightning-caused wildfires in the Canadian province of Quebec, Maine and New Hampshire have mobilized firefighting crews to assist in control efforts.
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By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Dec. 17--Loggers will thin out a 47-acre bug-infested swath of mature trees on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest under a proposed forest-health improvement project on the Mount Adams Ranger District.
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A mandatory evacuation was ordered Saturday for residents of more than 1,000 homes south of Ketchum, where a massive wildfire raged and high winds grounded firefighting air tankers.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Wildfires have scorched over  5 million acres in Alaska as of Tuesday, forestry officials  said, a new record that signals possible changes in climate  conditions and the composition of the vast forests.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Wildfires have scorched over 5 million acres in Alaska as of Tuesday, forestry officials said, a new record that signals possible changes in climate conditions and the composition of the vast forests.
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ST. CATHARINES, Ont. (CP) - Firemen battled a devastating house blaze into the early hours Tuesday, after a fire tore through a home, killing several people west of St. Catharines in the rural west Lincoln area.
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Arrest warrants have been issued for five men accused of starting a massive wildfire at Malibu State Park that destroyed more than 50 homes in November, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said Thursday.
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Forty hours after he arrived in the San Bernardino National Forest, firefighter Peter Stanton stepped gingerly over a sleeping colleague and wondered what his next assignment was going to be. "We've been going nonstop. I kind of hope they're going to send us to sleep, but I'm pretty sure we're going back out," he said.
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ST. CATHARINES, Ont. (CP) - About 1,000 mourners filled a church Saturday for a funeral service for a mother and her seven children killed when fire tore through their century-old rural southwestern Ontario home.
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TELKWA, B.C. (CP) - Instead of battling flames, a forest-fire fighting crew from northern British Columbia is battling rising flood waters in Telkwa, just east of Smithers, B.C.
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DOVER-FOXCROFT - A Maine Highland Farmers meeting on wine and spirit regulations involving farm production has been rescheduled.  Originally planned for this Wednesday, the meeting has been changed to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, at the Piscataquis County Extension Office.
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A forest fire near the Mediterranean coastline in northeastern Spain forced the evacuation of thousands of people, officials said Wednesday.
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BIG TIMBER, Mont. - An enormous wildfire that has prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people continued to spread Monday, though winds didn't kick up as much as firefighters had feared, a Forest Service official said.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Quebec provincial police aren't afraid to patrol a troubled Mohawk settlement near Montreal but are tailoring the job to the situation, district Cmdr. Jacques Beaupre said Wednesday.
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Firefighters brought a wildfire in the French Riviera under control Thursday after it ripped through 2,500 acres of brush and trees, destroyed a home and forced the evacuation of campsites.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff writer  LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST -- Taking advantage of cooler weather, hundreds of "hotshot" firefighters descended Thursday deep into Ventura County's wilderness.
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By JEN LYNDS; OF THE NEWS STAFF  CRYSTAL - A weekend fire flattened two potato houses along a section of Route 2 known as the Pine Tree Road.