Five-Day Wildfire Near Ky. In Check / Snow AIDS Firefighters; Officials Suspect Blaze Was Deliberately Set
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By REX BOWMAN  Firefighters battling a five-day-old, 900-acre blaze in stiff winds and steep terrain near the Virginia-Kentucky line pinned it down yesterday with help from a light snow.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 18--Snow falling in the mountains helped firefighters gain the upper hand on two large wildfires over the weekend.   Crews hope to contain the Middle Fork Complex fire today.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - Firefighters have prevented a six-day-old wildfire near California's Lake Tahoe from spreading into some of the resort area's most densely populated neighborhoods, officials said on Friday.
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Firefighters took advantage of calm, humid weather Wednesday morning to extend containment lines around part of a 1,000-acre wildfire that forced scores of people from their homes.
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By Aubrey Woods, The Tribune, Seymour, Ind.  Jun. 15--Seymour police plan to take a long and hard look at a string of suspicious fires in the city since the beginning of the year, a department official said Thursday.
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By SHANNON DININNY  STEHEKIN, Wash. - Firefighters cut trees and vegetation Tuesday to try slowing the growth of an 11-square-mile wildfire that has chased summer tourists from this rural, mountainous region.
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By ALEX DOBUZINSKIS and PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff Writers  LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST -- A small campfire apparently ignited the enormous Day Fire that has burned some 21 square miles of forest since Labor Day and on Monday moved toward Interstate 5, U.S.
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By ALEX DOBUZINSKIS and PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff Writers  CASTAIC -- Hoping to contain the massive 15-day-old Day Fire, firefighters are constructing a 50-mile line around its flanks -- defying walls of flame that are devouring wilderness as they charge toward a half-dozen communities.
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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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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.
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By Jessica Klipa, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 3--MANATEE -- On the same day that the state issued a heightened wildfire awareness alert, a controlled burn got out of hand in Parrish during a land clearing operation off Mendoza Road.
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People who lost their homes and belongings to a devastating wildfire were allowed to briefly return to their burned-out neighborhoods Friday as authorities declared the blaze mostly contained.
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 12--There were thunderstorms across the Bluegrass and Eastern Kentucky last week, but not enough to significantly move the readings of the Palmer Drought Severity Index.
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Wildfires bracketed the southern Nevada town of Beatty on Monday, with about 400 firefighters digging in to keep flames at least three miles away, a fire incident commander said.
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By MARTIN GRIFFITH  RENO, Nev. - For the first time in three months, firefighters in northeastern Nevada may get a chance to catch their breath.  Crews nearly contained the last of two wildfires that have burned more than 407 square miles since Sept.
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A forecast for cooler weather Thursday was welcome news for firefighters battling a wildfire in southern Montana that nearly doubled in size a day earlier and prompted officials to urge several hundred of residents to leave their homes.
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Fire crews guarded homes and ranches Wednesday as a stubborn wildfire that has jumped containment lines crept within a half-mile of hundreds of dwellings.