California wildfire threatens condors
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A fast-spreading wildfire has burned 500 acres of woodland in the northern section of Los Angeles County, according to U.S. Forest Service spokesman Stanton Florea.
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With recent heavy rain and more expected next week, California may make it through this season without a repeat of last year's catastrophic wildfires. But dangers remain, especially in national forests plagued by drought, unchecked growth of brush and bark beetle infestation.
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Strong winds and high temperatures fuel California brush fires, forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes.
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University of California-Santa Cruz environmental toxicologists suggest ammunition is producing lead poisoning in condors.
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Hot, dry Santa Ana winds gusting to more than 50 mph on Saturday grounded water-dropping helicopters and stoked the flames of a three-week-old wildfire in Los Padres National Forest.
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Huge blazes in California force thousands to seek temporary shelter in San Diego's NFL stadium.
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Insured losses from California  wildfires could exceed $1.6 billion if the fires continued to  spread, a risk modeling firm said on Thursday.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - Fire crews expect to have a wildfire that consumed more than 2,700 acres
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - High winds expected at California's Lake Tahoe threaten to fan a raging wildfire that jumped a containment line after destroying hundreds of buildings and forcing thousands of people to evacuate the resort area, firefighters said on Wednesday.
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Crews battling a growing wildfire that tore through this old mining town in Northern California faced extra challenges Monday as the flames headed into rugged terrain filled with open mine shafts and rattlesnakes.
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Residents hit by deadly California wildfires are warned of pollution levels three times higher than normal.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 3--For a pip-squeak of a fish, Delta smelt are becoming a whale of a threat to California's water supply.
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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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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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CASTAIC, Calif. - Firefighters face more hot, dry weather Sunday as they struggle to contain a wildfire burning across nearly 20-square miles of dry brush and timber in the Los Padres National Forest.  The blaze broke out Monday about 40 miles north of Los Angeles.
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By Gillian Flaccus THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  OJAI -- Firefighters, aided by calmer winds and aircraft dropping water and fire-smothering chemicals, gained ground Sunday against a wildfire that has burned more than 200 square miles in the Los Padres National Forest.
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Hundreds of thousands of people in California have been forced to flee their homes as fierce brush fires fuelled by gusting winds continue to burn out of control.