Tahoe Fire Scene: Residents Struggle to Learn Fate of Their Homes
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By Mike Zapler and Rodney Foo, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 26--The scene at the Lake Tahoe Community College was just as  devastating as the 2,500-acres of charred forest that lie south of the lake's  famed crystal blue waters.
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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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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - Firefighters have prevented a six-day-old wildfire near California's Lake Tahoe from spreading into some of the resort area's most densely populated neighborhoods, officials said on Friday.
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By Aaron Davis Associated Press  SOUTH LAKE TAHOE - Hundreds of people filed into a community college student center throughout Monday and anxiously scanned computer printouts listing the homes destroyed in a raging forest fire 10 miles away.  Nearly everyone left in tears.
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After watching the fire in Salt Lake City where
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By Dennis Welch and Beth Lucas, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  May 30--Thousands of East Valley residents now living outside city limits soon could have a new way to get emergency fire protection.
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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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By Jessica Klipa, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Mar. 3--MANATEE -- On the same day that the state issued a heightened wildfire awareness alert, a controlled burn got out of hand in Parrish during a land clearing operation off Mendoza Road.
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A wildfire raged out of control near Lake Tahoe on Monday, forcing hundreds of residents to flee towering flames that destroyed more than 200 buildings, turned the sky orange and fouled the lake's famously clear waters with falling ash.
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Many California residents are ruggedly obstinate about the choice they have made to live with the constant threat of fire.
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By Gillian Flaccus Associated Press  RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A blaze that killed five federal firefighters last year has emboldened those who question the cost of saving the ever expanding number of homes on the fringe of wilderness.
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A blaze that killed five federal firefighters last year has challenged attitudes about saving the building boom of homes on the fringe of wilderness.
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Firefighters were on Monday battling to contain a raging forest fire near California&#39;s Lake Tahoe that destroyed as many as 220 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,000 people, officials said.
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Firefighters tackled a ferocious forest fire near California&#39;s Lake Tahoe on Monday that destroyed up to 220 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,000 people, officials said.
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California fire evacuees and their most precious possessions, photographed by Jeffrey Lamont Brown at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - Firefighters had a wildfire near California's popular Lake Tahoe resort 40 percent contained on Monday after it engulfed 2,500 acres
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The wildfire shows that residents need to minimize the risk on their own properties, analysts say.