Calif. Fires Burn Homes, Menace Wineries
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A 14,000-acre wildfire burned out of control Saturday in Sonoma County's wine country, as another fire in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada destroyed 11 homes.
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Thousands of evacuees return to their California homes, some of which are wrecked, as wildfires subside.
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Firefighters battle at least 16 wildfires as half a million mainly rural Californians are ordered to leave their homes.
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Wildfires fed by gale-force winds ravaged Southern California for a second day, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses and charring 267,000 acres.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Firefighters are battling erratic winds and very low humidity, but making slow gains on a fire that had burned nearly 12,000 acres in the California wine country by Monday morning.
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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 hoped for high winds to abate on Tuesday, enabling them to start containing the fast-moving fires that have engulfed a swath of Southern California, claimed some 700 homes and sent thousands fleeing.
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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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Fast-moving wildfires roared across California on Monday and engulfed large swaths of San Diego County, where 250,000 people were told to evacuate as state officials called in National Guard troops.
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Wildfires that have charred a huge swath of California and destroyed 1,300 homes burned into the night on Wednesday, but firefighters said a break in the weather had given them a chance to go on the offensive.
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Wildfires stoked by fierce winds burned unchecked across Southern California for a third day on Tuesday with 300,000 people in San Diego alone evacuated as flames destroyed or threatened homes from humble forest cabins to luxury villas.
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Wildfires blown by fierce desert winds Monday reduced scores of Southern California homes to ashes, forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee and laid a hellish, spidery pattern of luminous orange over the drought-stricken region.
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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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Dry conditions combined with fierce winds fueled wildfires in at least a dozen areas around Los Angeles and San Diego, threatening homes, forcing evacuations and causing at least one death on Sunday.
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A fast moving brush fire sent flames leaping into backyards and forced more than 1,200 southern California residents out of their hillside homes on a sweltering Sunday of gusty winds after months of drought.
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Firefighters were hampered by erratic wind and low humidity Monday as they made slow progress against a fire that had burned nearly 12,000 acres and four homes in the Northern California wine country.
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Wildfires in Southern California  are exacerbating a difficult retail environment in a state  already hit by declining home sales and mortgage woes that have  cut into consumer spending.