Crews dig firelines for California blaze
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Crews dug firelines and reinforced others on the northwestern edge of a wildfire that crept toward hundreds of forest homes in Southern California on Thursday.
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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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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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An infusion of fresh manpower helped firefighters gain the upper hand Tuesday on a wildfire that had burned across more than 12,500 acres and destroyed four homes in Northern California's wine country.
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One of the larger fires in Southern California is a suspected arson, a fire official confirmed Thursday.
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Firefighters were battling several brush fires that flared up across Southern California on Thursday, forcing authorities to evacuate hundreds of homes and temporarily shut down a stretch of a major interstate freeway.
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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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Huge blazes in California force thousands to seek temporary shelter in San Diego's NFL stadium.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff writer  LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST -- Taking advantage of cooler weather, hundreds of "hotshot" firefighters descended Thursday deep into Ventura County's wilderness.
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By AMANDA FEHD MEYERS, Calif. - Firefighters trying to tame a raging wildfire that has destroyed some 200 homes near Lake Tahoe Tuesday suffered a setback when the blaze jumped a fireline near a densely populated area, forcing a new round of evacuations, authorities said.
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CASTAIC, Calif. - Firefighters battled high winds and low humidity Saturday as they tried to keep a fire that has already scorched nearly 48 square miles of dry brush and timber from jumping a major highway and threatening homes.
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Firefighters were on Monday battling to contain a raging forest fire near California&#39;s Lake Tahoe that destroyed as many as 220 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,000 people, officials said.
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Aided by cooler weather, firefighters in Southern California were gaining ground on two wildfires that raged through brush left dry by high summer temperatures.
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By Mike Zapler, Rod Foo and Leslie Griffy, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 25--Firefighters near South Lake Tahoe are struggling to contain a wildfire that has already burned 173 homes and scorched more than 2,500 acres.
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Firefighters Sunday were battling two raging wildfires in Southern California that forced nearly 2,000 people to evacuate.
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Firefighters on Sunday battled a 9,200-acre wildfire that was bearing down on California's prized wine country and threatened to knock out power to parts of northern California.
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Wildfires raged across the western United States on Sunday as firefighters scrambled to prevent flames from spreading across rugged terrain thick with tinder turned bone-dry by scorching weather.