California Fires Force 300,000 From Homes
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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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Cool, damp weather moved into Southern California from the Pacific Ocean on Friday boosting efforts to beat down stubborn wildfires, while weary families returned to find many homes unscathed but hundreds of others burned to rubble.
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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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A wildfire fueled by dry brush grew to nearly 30,000 acres Tuesday and prompted the voluntary evacuation of a remote community near Lake Berryessa in northern California.
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Fire officials have evacuated hundreds of people from their homes as wildfires raged through Northern California and Montana.
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Thousands of evacuees return to their California homes, some of which are wrecked, as wildfires subside.
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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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About 300,000 people flee California wildfires Thousands of firefighters now battling flamesPresident Bush declares emergency Firefighter: "It looked like the end of the world"
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More than 500,000 people  are ordered to evacuate areas being engulfed by wildfires in California.
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Firefighters battled out-of-control wildfires in southern California on Tuesday that forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and prompted the deployment of National Guard soldiers.
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An out-of-control wildfire roared through an old mining town in the Northern California mountains Sunday, destroying 20 houses and forcing nearly 300 residents to flee, officials said.
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Scorching temperatures in the western US cause a string of fires, threatening homes and highways.
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A fast moving brush fire sent flames leaping into backyards and forced more than 1,200 southern California residents out of their hillside homes on a sweltering Sunday of gusty winds after months of drought.
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An out-of-control wildfire in the San Bernardino National Forest shifted toward a scattered cluster of homes Saturday, prompting evacuations and forcing road closures.
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California firefighters made headway in reining in 18 wildfires on Wednesday as hot winds abated and San Diego said it hoped to let some of the 500,000 evacuees start returning home.
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Hundreds of people were evacuated on Sunday from the posh Californian city of Malibu after wildfires destroyed several homes and threatened to set ablaze a university, fire officials said
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Hundreds of people were forced to evacuate their homes and an interstate was closed in two of the many wildfires that dotted the West on Friday.