Alaska Wildfires Grow to Record 5 Million Acres
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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 Heath Druzin, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 8--A week of smoke and wind has kept aircraft grounded and shifted part of a 36,000-acre fire toward the mountain hamlet of Yellow Pine, prompting residents there to gather pets and valuables for a possible evacuation.
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By Julie Patel, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 23--More than 500 firefighters battled a 400-acre blaze Saturday in Napa County.   A fire started at about 8 a.m.
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At least three wildfires were burning Friday in southern Alaska with lightning strikes threatening to start more blazes.  The Big Su fire near the Susitna River and the Caribou fire on the Kenai Peninsula had both spread over thousands of acres this week, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
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WASHINGTON _ Wildfires around California's Lake Tahoe and Alaska's Kenai Peninsula are fanning the firefighting costs that officials are trying to curtail.
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A rainstorm helped firefighters gain control of wildfires burning across the Sierra Nevada, including a nearly 17,000-acre blaze and a smaller fire ignited by a suspected arsonist in Yosemite National Park.
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By Associated Press  COLUMBUS, Mont. -- Fire crews battled to contain a wind-whipped wildfire in south-central Montana that has spread across 180,000 acres and burned 26 homes.
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Firefighters in Northern California got a break Saturday when winds that had whipped 45 wildfires died down.  One of the largest fires, which charred 400 acres west of Yountville Friday, was 60 percent contained Saturday morning, the Napa Valley Register reported.
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By Brandon Loomis  Bloomis@adn.Com, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun.
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By Tom Knudson THE SACRAMENTO BEE  When the Deep Fire broke out in the Sequoia National Forest on Aug. 12, 2004, Forest Service fire managers projected that the cost of fighting it would be modest -- about $200 an acre.  But costs raced faster than the flames.
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By ANA BEATRIZ CHOLO ANAHEIM, Calif. - A fast-moving brush fire scorched 500 acres of parched hillside and crept into backyards Sunday, forcing authorities to evacuate more than 200 homes, Orange County fire officials said.
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By GORDON JACKSON  KINGSLAND -- A wildfire stretching from Waycross to Lake City, Fla., has surpassed the 600,000-acre milestone and is still growing.  The question is how much bigger will it get.
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More than 2.5 million people along the water were asked to evacuate Â the largest number in state history.
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By AP  MAZAMA   Fires were burning across more than 270,000 acres Monday in Washington state, with the most significant holding fires steady.
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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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An unusually long, dry summer has helped push Alaska wildfires past the state record for most acres burned in a single season.
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DRYDEN, Wash. -- A wind-blown wildfire grew to more than 11,000 acres early Wednesday as it moved into dry brush and grass in central Washington.