Fires create electricity "island" in San Diego
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California wildfires created an electricity "island" of San Diego County on Wednesday as one major power transmission link to the U.S. West grid was shut and the other flickering on and off, said San Diego Gas & Electric Co.
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By Mowad, Michelle  An area museum has created a wildfire seminar in an effort to train professionals who work in and around San Diego County's undeveloped wild lands.  The San Diego Natural History Museum and the U.S.
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In San Diego, displaced employees might affect production at some of the companies you own.
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By Evan S. Benn, The Miami Herald  Jun. 4--e house   A powerful fire destroyed a vacant house in the Normandy Isle neighborhood of Miami Beach Sunday night, fire officials said.   The blaze started about 7 p.m. in the 1900 block of Normandy Drive.
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Japanese tech firms Sony Corp  and Kyocera Corp  said they have halted some production in the San Diego, California, area because of fires raging in the southern part of the state.
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Reigning NFL MVP LaDainian Tomlinson was among several San Diego Chargers players, coaches and staff members who had to evacuate their homes as wildfires burned in San Diego County.
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By Mike Holtzclaw, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 6--VIRGINIA BEACH -- An electrical fire in a townhouse has left nine Virginia Beach residents temporarily homeless this morning.
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The California grid operator is urging residents to conserve electricity on Tuesday after a small plane crash near San Diego damaged transmission lines, knocking some generating plants offline, a spokesman said.
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Weeks into a wildfire season that has already burned parts of Catalina Island, Los Angeles and Lake Tahoe, swaths of California's flammable national forests are some days protected by nothing more than luck.
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A 6,600-acre wildfire forced the evacuation of more than a hundred homes in rural San Diego County, and authorities warned Monday that two other communities with a total of 1,350 homes could be next.
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Towering wildfires burned out of control across Southern California for a third day on Tuesday as 500,000 people fled the San Diego area, and firefighters made a desperate stand to save a mountain town ringed by flames.
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By Gillian Flaccus THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  OJAI -- Firefighters, aided by calmer winds and aircraft dropping water and fire-smothering chemicals, gained ground Sunday against a wildfire that has burned more than 200 square miles in the Los Padres National Forest.
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By Scott Marshall, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 12--BENICIA -- Smoke that appeared on the west side of Benicia this afternoon was caused by a grass fire.
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Utilities urged customers to ease up on electricity use and officials opened cool shelters as California continued to swelter under a heat wave Friday.
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Someone lit 22 small fires in laundry facilities of the Parkridge Apartments complex on Casino Road in Everett yesterday morning. Smoke leaked into the living quarters above the laundry rooms, alerting residents
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By ALEX DOBUZINSKIS and PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff Writers  LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST -- A small campfire apparently ignited the enormous Day Fire that has burned some 21 square miles of forest since Labor Day and on Monday moved toward Interstate 5, U.S.
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Despite having 21 years experience as a firefighter, Arthur Jackson was shocked by what he saw Tuesday -- piles of smoking ash located next to houses in pristine condition in this San Diego suburb.