California fire victims find long path to recovery
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RAMONA, California  - Sifting through the ash-covered rubble where her family's home stood one week ago, Nicole Booth combs the scorched remains of a life left behind in the wildfires that blanketed this Southern California town.
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Like California a generation ago, the Sunshine State is moving toward providing relief for overburdened homeowners
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By Gillian Flaccus Associated Press  RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A blaze that killed five federal firefighters last year has emboldened those who question the cost of saving the ever expanding number of homes on the fringe of wilderness.
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Four burned bodies found in the path of California's fierce wildfires raised the death toll to at least 12 people, even as firefighters won the upper hand and officials turned on Friday toward assessing the damage.
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Thousands of evacuees return to their California homes, some of which are wrecked, as wildfires subside.
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A measure of normalcy began to return to this resort community Thursday, even as crews battled an unpredictable mountain wildfire for a fifth day. Sunbathers ventured to some beaches, and the smoke lurking in the mountains largely cleared.
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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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Like California a decade ago, the Sunshine State is moving toward providing relief for overburdened homeowners
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As the anniversary of a Rhode Island fire that killed 100 people approaches, survivors say they feel forgotten.
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A weekend of good weather means the fires are finally on the wane  -  and the time to ask how California coped is here
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Southern California's wildfires have touched down like tornados destroying some homes while leaving others standing. Rancho Bernardo is littered with charred, smoldering debris, and some homes are relatively unscathed. Now those residents forced to flee are looking forward to one thing -- rebuilding.
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By Christina Almeida THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  OJAI -- Teams of firefighters hiked into the wilderness Monday to fight a stubborn, two-week-old wildfire by hand that scorched more than 125 square miles of chaparral and timber along the Los Angeles- Ventura County line.
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Survivors of firestorms that destroyed more than 2,000 homes in Southern California found reasons Sunday to be thankful even as the damage toll mounted and firefighters worked to contain blazes.
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The wildfires in California have forced an exodus of estimated 950,000 people from their homes. But where have they all gone?
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With the firesâ advance slowed, another phase of firefighting has begun.
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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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From the high desert to the Pacific Ocean, out-of-control wildfires engulfed swaths of drought-parched Southern California, claiming one life, destroying several homes and a church in Malibu, and forcing an entire community to evacuate