B.C. Fire Crews Pulled From Aggressive Fire Burning on Both Sides of Border
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KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) - Fire officials have pulled all crews fighting the aggressive Tatoosh blaze burning out of control near Manning Park in southern B.C.  Fire information officer Jeff Moore said Friday that poor weather conditions forced withdrawal of the crews to safety.
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Forest fires destroyed most of three villages near the Syrian-Turkish border, officials said, forcing 3,000 people to evacuate as Syrian and Turkish firefighters extinguished the blazes on Wednesday.
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Firefighters worked feverishly Saturday to build containment lines around a fast-moving wildfire that would threaten hundreds of residents if it reached a ridge two miles away.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The expanding Tatoosh fire licking at the fringes of British Columbia's Manning Park covers about 21 square kilometres and is burning out of control, a provincial forest service spokesman said Tuesday.
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Vancouver, British Columbia office will house international workers caught in immigration tangle.
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By GORDON JACKSON  WAYCROSS - An undetermined number of residents were evacuated Thursday from an area southwest of Waycross after strong winds pushed flames across containment lines that had held the past three weeks.
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Firefighters made some headway against an enormous wildfire that has chased hundreds of residents from their homes, but officials warned it is far from being contained.
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A federal firefighting team took over direction of efforts Sunday to halt a fast-moving wildfire that had killed three people
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LOCKWOOD VALLEY, Calif. -- Fire crews guarded homes and ranches Wednesday as a stubborn wildfire that has jumped containment lines crept within a half-mile of hundreds of dwellings.
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Firefighters, volunteers and aircraft tackle forest blazes that have caused widespread death and destruction.
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A hot air balloon caught fire over western Canada, forcing screaming passengers to leap to the ground, some with their clothes in flames, witnesses said. Two people died and 11 were seriously injured, police said Saturday.
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Fire officials have evacuated hundreds of people from their homes as wildfires raged through Northern California and Montana.
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Firefighters racing the weather for control of a turbulent wildfire near this popular resort got a bit of a break Wednesday as high winds forecast to arrive by early afternoon held off, giving crews time to shore up their defenses.
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Twenty people are moved from their homes as firefighters tackle a blaze in County Londonderry.
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By The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.  Dec. 13--It took all night, but area firefighters controlled a brush fire that engulfed 25 acres of land.  The brush fire was reported Monday afternoon in a patch of woods off Brands Run Road, near River Road.
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Flooding caused by heavy rain chased residents from their homes in one Pacific Northwest community and killed livestock, and three people were missing Wednesday after a mudslide on the Canadian side of the border.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The B.C. south coast is being hammered by another windstorm that has knocked out power to at least 190,000 people.  The storm has uprooted trees, knocked down power lines and disrupted travel with winds up to 100 kilometres an hour or more in some places.