Town's Burning Issue
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By SHANNON DININNY, Associated Press writer  TEHEKIN  For generations, residents of this remote hamlet in central Washington's Cascade Range have worked to preserve its rural woodsy character, while promoting it as a scenic tourist getaway.
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By David Silverstein, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Sep. 11--DRACUT -- Firefighters from six communities couldn't save a single-family home in Dracut after a fast-moving fire tore through the house Saturday afternoon.
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By Shannon Dininny Associated Press  STEHEKIN, Wash. - 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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A fire in County Tyrone which led to the evacuation of properties is being treated as arson.
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Fire raged through the high school in this small town Thursday morning, consuming at least half of the building and sending huge plumes of smoke in the air.
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By Hurst Laviana and Stan Finger, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Mar. 7--A faulty transformer is being blamed for a windswept fire that burned through a west Wichita neighborhood Tuesday as firefighters across the state were forced to cope with a spate of grass and brush fires.
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When Wally Danielson's pager started rattling at 4:54 a.m. last Monday to report a fire of an undetermined nature at Hunters Brooke, the volunteer fire chief in Marbury didn't think much of it.
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By Andy Meinen, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Jun. 9--A nearly month-old statewide burn ban on yard debris was lifted Friday, but a Bay County ordinance still prohibits burning yard waste here.
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HELOTES, Tex. -- The smoke comes and goes with the breeze, but some days it blankets Deanna Rodriguez's neighborhood, covering cars in grimy ash and seeping inside homes. Some days, when the wind blows from the south, her house becomes almost uninhabitable.
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By Josh Hoke, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 10--BUCKSVILLE COMMUNITY -- Five foresters spent much of Friday starting and controlling a small fire they said could prevent larger blazes in the area.
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Firefighters tackle a blaze at a row of houses in the County Antrim seaside town of Ballycastle.
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It is Hip-hop, as much a source of local pride as the townâs soccer team, that turns out to be a lens through which to examine why this city didnât burn.
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High temperatures and low humidity prevented firefighters from extinguishing a fire Saturday that threatened at least two dozen homes in a small town in central Utah.
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MILFORD, Neb. - A large pile of composting manure burning for almost two months has neighbors upset and state officials looking for a way to put it out.
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AN intense backburning effort by about 300 firefighters in Victoria&#39;s Grampians National Park is expected to protect nearby townships from bushfires.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 6--BILOXI -- A fire that gutted two units at Raintree Apartments and displaced residents from five surrounding apartments may have started from a barbecue grill on an upstairs patio.
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A fire which extensively damaged a derelict buiding in east Belfast was started deliberately, it is believed.