Wildfires: Making Progress in Sonoma, Calaveras, Amador
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Firefighters are battling erratic winds and very low humidity, but making slow gains on a fire that had burned nearly 12,000 acres in the California wine country by Monday morning.
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An infusion of fresh firefighters allowed officials to get the upper hand early Tuesday on a wildfire that has burned more than 12,500 acres of land in Northern California&#39;s wine country.
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LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. - Two wildfires erupted Tuesday in the forests of Southern California as a moist ocean breeze helped slow a huge blaze that has burned for more than two weeks near the coast.
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FALLBROOK, California  - Cool weather and light winds helped thousands of firefighters beat back Southern California wildfires on Saturday as residents ventured through charred landscapes to see if their homes were still standing.
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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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LOS ANGELES -- When the firestorms of October were finally extinguished and hundreds of thousands of Southern Californians returned to their homes, officials set out to understand how 21 fires erupted in the span of just three days.
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By TOM GARDNER  RENO, Nev. - A national command team and three of the top firefighting teams in the country joined the battle Thursday against a 375-square-mile wildfire that has marched through rangeland during the past four days, threatening ranches, mines and wildlife habitat.
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Firefighters won the upper hand against most of California's wildfires on Thursday, though several still burned out of control as President George W. Bush surveyed what he called "terrible devastation" from the five-day disaster.
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Napa County California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection firefighters continued to assist Sonoma County CDF fire crews Sunday in battling a raging grass fire.
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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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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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Crews battling hundreds of forest fires for the past two weeks in Spain's northwestern Galicia region have managed to control all but four blazes, officials said Tuesday. None of those fires is considered serious, and rain is forecast for Wednesday, the rural affairs department of the Galician regional government said.
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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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The wildfires are dying down, and data show how immense these fires really were.
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By Scott Marshall, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 12--BENICIA -- Smoke that appeared on the west side of Benicia this afternoon was caused by a grass fire.
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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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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. 3 around Elko, 290 miles east of Reno.