Californians endure 7 days of wildfires
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They know what the winds can do. They forecast them. Fight the fires the winds fan. Ready for evacuations that, in years past, never came. They thought they knew, until seven days of fury began a week ago. From almost the beginning, this Santa Ana was different somehow.
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After a week of battling high temperatures, gusty winds and lightning, firefighters caught a break when a storm system bringing higher humidity helped them tame wildfires throughout the state.
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SANTA YSABEL, California  - As California struggles to extinguish some of the state's most devastating forest fires, it has turned to a record number of prisoners for some of the most demanding work.
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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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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
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Firefighters hoped for high winds to abate on Tuesday, enabling them to start containing the fast-moving fires that have engulfed a massive swath of Southern California, claimed some 700 homes and sent thousands fleeing.
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Firefighters made headway against 18 wildfires blazing across Southern California on Wednesday as hot winds abated for the first time in four days, but they were still battling to save entire neighborhoods from hopscotching flames.
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Wildfires have forced some 300,000 southern Californians to flee their homes.
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Firefighters around Australia's largest city have tamed a spate of wildfires that destroyed seven homes and left hundreds of thousands of people without power.
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Firefighters Sunday hoped to hold on to the strong gains they made against Southern California blazes, despite a forecast of warmer, drier weather and a continuing threat to some homes.
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Lighter winds and higher humidity have enabled firefighters in California to go on the attack more, but the fires remain worrisome.
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Wildfires fed by gale-force winds ravaged Southern California, destroying hundreds of buildings and charring 267,000 acres.
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While life began returning to normal in parts of Southern California today, more than 20,000 homes are still at risk from several large blazes.
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Fast-moving wildfires in southern California destroyed several homes Sunday, killed one person in San Diego County and closed the Pacific Coast Highway at Malibu. Four firefighters and four civilians were also hurt in the southeastern part of San Diego county.
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On a day when firefighters methodically beat back several of the wildfires menacing Southern California and thousands of evacuees were allowed home, authorities said Thursday they had found six bodies burned by the flames
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More than a dozen wildfires continued to rage in southern California, driven by shifting, gusting winds that make them all but impossible to stop.
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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.