Five dead in California fires and mass evacuation
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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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Fast-moving wildfires raged across Southern California on Monday, forcing at least 250,000 people to flee their homes and destroying hundreds of buildings as desperate fire officials called for help from other states.
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Wildfires stoked by fierce winds burned unchecked across Southern California for a third day on Tuesday with 300,000 people in San Diego alone evacuated as flames destroyed or threatened homes from humble forest cabins to luxury villas.
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Relentless wildfires forcing the largest evacuations in California's modern history raged into a fourth day on Wednesday as 10,000 exhausted firefighters hoped for a break in the hot winds whipping the flames.
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Fast-moving wildfires roared across California on Monday and engulfed large swaths of San Diego County, where 250,000 people were told to evacuate as state officials called in National Guard troops.
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Firefighters made headway against 18 wildfires blazing across Southern California on Wednesday as hot winds abated for the first time in four days, but they were still battling to save entire neighborhoods from hopscotching flames.
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More than 500,000 people  are ordered to evacuate areas being engulfed by wildfires in California.
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Strong winds and high temperatures fuel California brush fires, forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes.
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On a day when firefighters methodically beat back several of the wildfires menacing Southern California and thousands of evacuees were allowed home, authorities said Thursday they had found six bodies burned by the flames
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Firefighters hoped for high winds to abate on Tuesday, enabling them to start containing the fast-moving fires that have engulfed a massive swath of Southern California, claimed some 700 homes and sent thousands fleeing.
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Five people, including a police officer, were killed Thursday as a man barricaded himself inside a Los Angeles house that caught fire during the standoff.
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More than a dozen uncontained wildfires raged Monday across Southern California, threatening thousands of structures and forcing 265,000 people to flee homes. In San Diego, the chairman of the County Board of Supervisors said weather conditions had "all the ingredients for a perfect firestorm."
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A California wildfire fanned by powerful winds burned out of control on Sunday in the celebrity seaside enclave of Malibu, forcing hundreds of people to flee and destroying a handful of multimillion-dollar homes.
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Firefighters were battling several brush fires that flared up across Southern California on Thursday, forcing authorities to evacuate hundreds of homes and temporarily shut down a stretch of a major interstate freeway.
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Wildfires burned unchecked on Tuesday in Southern California, 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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Five children and a woman in her 20s were killed early Saturday in a house fire in southwestern Pennsylvania, police said.
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Firefighters contained a wildfire that killed nine people and left three others missing, the nation's deadliest blaze in more than two decades, officials said Thursday.