Fire at California's Lake Tahoe destroys 50 homes
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - More than 50 homes in Lake Tahoe went up in flames on Sunday as a fast-moving forest fire hit this resort community, prompting U.S. Forest Service officials to order residents out.
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Authorities evacuated at least 200 homes as a fast-moving brush fire scorched 300 acres of parched hillside Sunday and crept into backyards, Orange County fire officials said.
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At least 16 wind-driven wildfires burned from the Mexican border to areas north of Los Angeles on Tuesday, forcing more than half a million people from their homes and claiming a second life on the third day of fire calamity.
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Firefighters gained the upper hand on nearly all of the California wildfires on Thursday as winds died down after five days battling 20 fires from the mountains north of Los Angeles down to the Mexican border.
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on Thursday said that arrest warrants have been issued for five men accused of starting a massive wildfire at Malibu State Park that destroyed more than 50 homes and forced about 15,000 people to evacuate.
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Residents of about 200 southern California homes were ordered to evacuate on Sunday as a brush fire whipped by hot gusting winds burned 500 acres near a hillside community, firefighters said.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - Fire crews evacuated a neighborhood near California's Lake Tahoe on Tuesday afternoon as the wildfire that has consumed more than 2,700 acres of forest around the resort area jumped a defensive line.
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HOBART, Australia - Dozens of wildfires burning Tuesday across southern Australia destroyed more than a dozen homes and a popular ski lodge, while residents in a suburb of the western city of Perth were urged to flee an approaching blaze.
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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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A wildfire in the Sierra Nevada foothills burned 13 homes and 45 other buildings in rural subdivisions before firefighters obtained 85 percent containment over it on Sunday afternoon.
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Firefighters were on Monday battling to contain a raging forest fire near California&#39;s Lake Tahoe that destroyed as many as 220 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,000 people, officials said.
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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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About 300 homes were evacuated Sunday as Southern California firefighters worked on a wildfire that has burned more than 80,000 acres near Los Angeles.  The evacuations were precautionary, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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A wind-fueled wildfire roared through an old mining town near Redding on Sunday, destroying 20 homes and forcing nearly 125 residents to flee, officials said. The blaze broke out Saturday afternoon and quickly grew to 2,500 acres, sweeping through the mountain community of French Gulch, about 20 miles east of Redding, said Linda Galvan, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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A wind-fueled grass fire destroyed three homes Thursday night, west of where crews gained ground on a separate 1,240-acre mountain wildfire, firefighters said.
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A 48,000-acre fire chewed through desert wilderness Thursday after destroying 100 homes and buildings and was on course to possibly merge with a blaze in the San Bernardino National Forest.