California turns corner on fires as Bush tours area
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Firefighters won the upper hand against most of California's wildfires on Thursday, though several still burned out of control as President George W. Bush surveyed what he called "terrible devastation" from the five-day disaster.
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US President George W Bush is taking an air tour over the area hit by the California wildfires.
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Firefighters gained the upper hand on nearly all of the California wildfires on Thursday as winds died down after five days battling 20 fires from the mountains north of Los Angeles down to the Mexican border.
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President Bush spent part of Monday at his Texas ranch monitoring devastation from a deadly earthquake in Southeast Asia - a replay of his post-Christmas vacation last
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BRUNSWICK, Ga. - As the cost of wildfires that have burned nearly 585,000  acres in southeast Georgia and north Florida continues to escalate,  President Bush brought a promise of help Tuesday.
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US President George W. Bush on Wednesday showcased his role in helping California fight devastating wildfires, eager to prove he learned the grim lessons of the botched response to Hurricane Katrina.
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Fast-moving wildfires in southern California destroyed several homes Sunday, killed one person in San Diego County and closed the Pacific Coast Highway at Malibu. Four firefighters and four civilians were also hurt in the southeastern part of San Diego county.
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Homes destroyed and thousands of acres burned as President Bush declares major disaster.
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A home where President George W. Bush lived as a young boy with his parents in Odessa, Texas, and that is now part of a presidential museum there was damaged on Thursday by a fire that investigators blamed on arson.
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NEW YORK/SAN DIEGO  -  President Bush on Tuesday declared that an "emergency exists" in areas of California stricken by wildfires and authorized federal agencies to coordinate relief in the Los Angeles area.
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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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Wildfire-hit California prepares for at least another 24 hours of high winds and scorching temperatures.
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Nearly a dozen wildfires driven by powerful Santa Ana winds spread across Southern California on Sunday, killing one person near San Diego and destroying several homes and a church in celebrity-laden Malibu.
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CAMP PENDLETON, California President George W. Bush made an emotional visit to the Marine base that has been home to nearly a sixth of all the US troops killed in Iraq.
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LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. - Two wildfires erupted Tuesday in the forests of Southern California as a moist ocean breeze helped slow a huge blaze that has burned for more than two weeks near the coast.
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President Bush on Tuesday engaged Washington heavily in the wildfires sweeping across Southern California.
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Dying winds gave California firefighters their first big break on Wednesday after four days battling wildfires, but San Diego faced more calamity as blazes there burned out of control and kept more than half a million evacuees from returning home.