As Calif. wildfires rage, technology used to track blazes
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Although GPS and computer modeling technology can be used to help track the wildfires raging in California, the blazes are burning so fiercely that IT is playing little role in putting them out.
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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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Firefighters continued making progress today in taming the wildfires that devastated Southern California this week, but thousands of homes remained imperiled and officials said they had found two burned bodies in a home outside San Diego.
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While the military is lending assistance to battle wildfires in Southern California, it's also keeping an eye on the horizon in case it has to evacuate bases there.
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Networks of low-res cameras and sensors could monitor urban environments for diverse data -- traffic flow, pollutants, structural integrity -- online. By the Associated Press.
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LOS ANGELES -- When the firestorms of October were finally extinguished and hundreds of thousands of Southern Californians returned to their homes, officials set out to understand how 21 fires erupted in the span of just three days.
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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.
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A weekend of good weather means the fires are finally on the wane -- and the time to ask how California coped is here
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Teams of firefighters hiked into the remote wilderness along the Los Angeles-Ventura County line on Monday to fight a stubborn, two-week-old wildfire that has scorched more than 116 square miles of chaparral and timber.
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Cooler weather helped firefighters make progress on three wildfires that have burned more than 95,000 acres of Southern California forests, including two new blazes and one that has lingered for more than two weeks.
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They've stolen cars, used drugs and forged checks. When California is burning, they fight fires.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ For the past 20 years, wildfires in western states have raged more often and more intensely, an alarming trend that has been blamed mostly on decades of aggressive fire suppression and century-old grazing and logging practices.
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The latest updates on the wildfires raging across Southern California.
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Highway security videotape could hold clues about who torched a stolen car and triggered a fierce wildfire near the hills southeast of Los Angeles.
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A reporter who can see the California wildfires from his home asks why it's so hard for people to recognize the danger
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Federal officials on Friday were tracking 60 large, active fires that were burning more than 1 million acres, or more than 1,500 square miles, across the West.
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Firefighters, volunteers and aircraft tackle forest blazes that have caused widespread death and destruction.