Thousands ordered to flee Idaho fire
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A mandatory evacuation was ordered Saturday for residents of more than 1,000 homes south of Ketchum, where a massive wildfire raged and high winds grounded firefighting air tankers.
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Residents of two canyons were evacuated because of the threat from a wind-blown wildfire in central Washington that already had forced hundreds to flee their homes.
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Fire trucks, bulldozers and water tankers guarded homes within sight of a massive wildfire Tuesday as officials urged rural residents of Southern California mountain communities to evacuate.
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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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Authorities evacuated at least 200 homes as a fast-moving brush fire scorched 300 acres of parched hillside Sunday and crept into backyards, Orange County fire officials said.
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More than 250,000 people fled their homes as out-of-control wildfires raged across California on Monday, prompting authorities to draft in the US military to support weary firefighters.
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More than 20 people are moved from their homes after a large fire in Trecwn, Pembrokeshire.
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A forecast for cooler weather Thursday was welcome news for firefighters battling a wildfire in southern Montana that nearly doubled in size a day earlier and prompted officials to urge several hundred of residents to leave their homes.
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More than 17,000 people were urged to flee their homes on the outskirts of Raleigh early Friday after a thunderous series of explosions and a raging fire at a hazardous-waste disposal plant released a plume of thick black smoke and a yellow cloud of noxious gases.
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Investigators try to find the cause of a hotel fire that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people.
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Hundreds of thousands of people in California have been forced to flee their homes as fierce brush fires fuelled by gusting winds continue to burn out of control.
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Wildfires have forced some 300,000 southern Californians to flee their homes.
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A nearly 2,300-acre wildfire forced residents of three small communities to flee their northern New Mexico homes on Sunday.
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A wind-blown wildfire that had forced hundreds to flee their homes grew to more than 11,000 acres early Wednesday as it moved into dry brush and grass in central Washington.
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Evacuation has been a struggle and an ever-changing odyssey for hundreds of thousands
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By Heath Druzin, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 8--A week of smoke and wind has kept aircraft grounded and shifted part of a 36,000-acre fire toward the mountain hamlet of Yellow Pine, prompting residents there to gather pets and valuables for a possible evacuation.
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Residents of about 200 southern California homes were ordered to evacuate on Sunday as a brush fire whipped by hot gusting winds burned 500 acres near a hillside community, firefighters said.