Lake Tahoe Fire May Burn for Days
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A 4-square-mile wildfire burning near Lake Tahoe in California may take a week to contain, local officials said Tuesday.  It's a pretty big area, Sgt. Don Atkinson of the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department told The Los Angeles Times.
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By Mike Zapler, Rod Foo and Leslie Griffy, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 25--A massive wildfire is burning toward South Lake Tahoe today. The fire has scorched more than 2,500 acres, destroying more than 225 buildings and forcing hundreds of residents to flee from their homes.
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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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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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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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Gusty winds forecast for this afternoon are adding to the worries for firefighters battling a wildfire that already has burned at least 276 homes and buildings near Lake Tahoe in California. On Tuesday, winds breathed new life into the fire, causing it to jump across a fire line and threaten additional buildings, a fire official said.
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By Darin Fenger, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Sep. 11--Eleven fire departments continued to battle a stubborn blaze near Bard, Calif., on Sunday evening, pitting humans and water against a fire that had been burning since some time Friday.
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Last week's fire occurred in a key watershed responsible for a quarter of all the pollutants entering the lake.
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS  OJAI, Calif. - Helicopters lifted off as winds calmed Sunday, ferrying water and transporting firefighters to battle a three-week-old wildfire that has scorched more than 200 square miles of the Los Padres National Forest.
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By GILLIAN FLACCUS OJAI, Calif. - Helicopters lifted off as winds calmed Sunday, ferrying water and transporting firefighters to battle a three-week-old wildfire that has scorched more than 200 square miles of the Los Padres National Forest.
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By Aaron C. Davis  MEYERS, Calif. - A raging wildfire near Lake Tahoe on Monday forced hundreds of residents to flee towering flames that destroyed more than 200 buildings, turned the sky orange and fouled the lake's famously clear waters with falling ash.
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 23--All of a sudden, it's starting to feel a lot like winter.   Sacramento got a half-inch of rain on Thursday, and ski resorts near Lake Tahoe were on track to get at least a foot of fresh snow by this morning.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. _ The famously crisp blue skies above this mountain lake retreat made a strong if tentative return Wednesday as still air confounded dire wind warnings and helped fire crews cinch a grip on the 3,100-acre Angor Fire.
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Firefighters believe it could take another few days to control a blaze burning in the Grampians National Park. The fire, at the Bomjinna Picnic Ground, started on Christmas Day, burning almost 400 hectares of rugged bushland.
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A wind-driven blaze near Lake Tahoe that started on Sunday forced 1,000 people to flee their homes today.
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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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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 19--Several days of cooler, damper conditions may be the beginning of the end for both the Gunflint Trail fires and, just maybe, the summerlong drought.