Tahoe residents return to burned homes
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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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FRENCH GULCH, Calif. Aug. 17, 2004  Residents turned toward rebuilding even as the wildfire that had swept through their historic mining town continued blazing out of control nearby Tuesday.
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Debbie Beck and her husband met with an architect two weeks after their Harbison Canyon home burned. With that head start on rebuilding, they thought they didn&#39;t need to worry about their
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By Aaron Davis Associated Press  SOUTH LAKE TAHOE - Hundreds of people filed into a community college student center throughout Monday and anxiously scanned computer printouts listing the homes destroyed in a raging forest fire 10 miles away.  Nearly everyone left in tears.
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Wildfires that have charred a huge swath of California and destroyed 1,300 homes burned into the night on Wednesday, but firefighters said a break in the weather had given them a chance to go on the offensive.
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Thousands of Californians forced from their neighborhoods by this week's wind-whipped wildfires returned home on Friday, some of them finding their property unscathed amid the destruction and others discovering nothing but blackened rubble.
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A wildfire raged out of control near Lake Tahoe on Monday, forcing hundreds of residents to flee towering flames that destroyed more than 200 buildings, turned the sky orange and fouled the lake's famously clear waters with falling ash.
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About 1,500 people were allowed to return home Thursday, a day after butane fumes from a wrecked tanker truck caused explosions in at least two homes.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. _ The famously crisp blue skies above this mountain lake retreat made a strong if tentative return Wednesday as still air confounded dire wind warnings and helped fire crews cinch a grip on the 3,100-acre Angor Fire.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - High winds expected at California's Lake Tahoe could fan a raging wildfire that has jumped a containment line after destroying hundreds of buildings and forcing thousands to evacuate the resort area, firefighters said on Wednesday.
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Firefighters tackled a ferocious forest fire near California&#39;s Lake Tahoe on Monday that destroyed up to 220 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,000 people, officials said.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 26--LAKE TAHOE -- The Angora fire ravaging the South Lake Tahoe area jumped over Highway 89 this afternoon forcing hundreds of residents along Tahoe Keys Drive to fight or flee.
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By Mike Zapler and Rodney Foo, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 26--The scene at the Lake Tahoe Community College was just as  devastating as the 2,500-acres of charred forest that lie south of the lake's  famed crystal blue waters.
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A wind-driven blaze near Lake Tahoe that started on Sunday forced 1,000 people to flee their homes today.
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By AMANDA FEHD  MEYERS, Calif. - A wind-whipped forest fire in the popular resort area of Lake Tahoe destroyed 50 homes Sunday and threatened 500 others, a U.S. Forest Service official said. No injuries were reported.
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Many displaced people got their first look last week at homes destroyed by renewed fighting.
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Search teams scoured snow-covered slopes on Sunday for two missing skiers who were last seen at a Lake Tahoe resort during a storm that dumped more than 2 feet of snow.