Neighbors of Burned Homes Pained by Suburban Sprawl
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The fires set at a development on a wetland in Maryland have highlighted a long and contentious battle over whether the injection of suburban density belonged there.
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By Louis Galvan, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 8--As flames devoured a Calwa home early Wednesday and rescuers tried to break through security bars blocking windows and doors, neighbors could hear the cries of a little girl trapped inside.  "She was shouting, 'Mommy, Mommy.
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LOWER POTTSGROVE, Pa. _ At the entrance to the property, a low brick building squats behind a chain-link fence, and leafy trees sway in the breeze.  There's nothing overtly menacing. But Donna Cuthbert is frightened.
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As a city moves to curb its canine population, typically timid middle-class citizens find themselves fighting the power
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Before December 2005, the Chadian village of Bir Kedouas , left, was a tidy collection of huts in walled compounds and cultivated fields. A later satellite image shows what is left: The former homesites (marked with red circles) and fields are now a charred scar in the earth. The entire population...
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John and Ruby Haynal could do nothing to stop a wildfire 15 years ago that turned their hillside home high above the freeways and urban clatter into scorched rubble. This week, the retired couple stood outside the glass-and-stucco house they built on the same spot, staring at a mudslide that ripped open the foundation of a four-story mansion just above them and buried nearby cars and a swimming pool.
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Southern California's wildfires have touched down like tornados destroying some homes while leaving others standing. Rancho Bernardo is littered with charred, smoldering debris, and some homes are relatively unscathed. Now those residents forced to flee are looking forward to one thing -- rebuilding.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 1 -- By the time he reached the front gate of his neighbor's house, just minutes after the blast, Adil Ahmed saw flames leaping off the funeral tent. The guests' cars parked outside were blasted and burned. Some of the mourners were screaming with grief and rage, and many others were...
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One morning last week, Damon DeHart gazed out a window of his Bedford home at his backyard. "Gee, the leaves are piling up nicely now," he said.
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Is there a way to "retrofill" sprawled suburban landscapes?.
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By Nancy Bowman Staff Writer  TIPP CITY -- Property owners whose proposal to build housing just west of Interstate 75 was shot down by the city hope a new development concept gets a more "friendly" response.
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The fire gutted a four-story home in the Highbridge neighborhood that two families shared, fire officials said.
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By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 19--DURHAM -- As Durham's yard waste fire smolders into a second week, a sickening, smothering fog settles over nearby homes each night.
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The wildfire shows that residents need to minimize the risk on their own properties, analysts say.
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By EUGENE TONG  Firefighters trying to show homeowners the do's and dont's of brush-fire protection could simply point to Rodney Kemerer's backyard in Benedict Canyon.
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The fires that caused an estimated &#36;10 million damage at an upscale housing development in a Washington suburb were set by unidentified "acquaintances" in addition to the four men already charged in the case, according to court documents filed Monday.
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It was just about lunchtime when the sound of tank and gun fire tore through the quiet, just blocks from Amal Juad&#39;s house. A group of her neighbors, standing on a street corner nearby, did not even stop talking.