Firefighters Turn Out in Force for Small Forest Fire
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By Andrew Wellner, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 8--WASILLA -- A group of state and local firefighters that might have seemed larger than necessary stomped out a one-acre forest fire Tuesday in Big Lake.
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More than 200 firefighters from Arizona and Oregon joined the fight Thursday against a group of fast-growing wildfires in southeastern Washington, and officials said they still need more help.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff Writer  NEWHALL -- Firefighters made quick work Thursday of a brush fire that broke out at the mouth of Whitney Canyon in Newhall, but the region was under a blanket of smoke all day from the much larger forest fire burning to the north.
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Firefighters kept watch on the weather Tuesday as they lined up trucks and other equipment to defend a residential area from a wildfire that had forced the evacuation of 30 homes.
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A fast-spreading wildfire has burned 500 acres of woodland in the northern section of Los Angeles County, according to U.S. Forest Service spokesman Stanton Florea.
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The call came in at 6:29 pm and eight seconds. Within five seconds, the first trucks were dispatched. Within three minutes and 22 seconds, the first firefighters arrived at 135 S. LaSalle St.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM and EUGENE TONG\\ Staff Writers  ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST -- With a wall of flames charging through thick wilderness, firefighters wrapped a historic treasure in a metallic guard to protect it from a blaze that has burned out of control since Labor Day.
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By SUSAN GALLAGHER HELENA, Mont. - Firefighters battling a wildfire that has blackened nearly 290 square miles and burned 26 homes faced a new challenge, authorities said Wednesday: bees. The blaze that started with lightning on Aug. 22 has forced hundreds to evacuate.
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While firefighters have gained the upper hand in some areas, details of the latest reports from fire officials show that the trouble is far from over.
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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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AN intense backburning effort by about 300 firefighters in Victoria&#39;s Grampians National Park is expected to protect nearby townships from bushfires.
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PLOUTOCHORI, Greece  - Greek firefighters gained the upper hand on Wednesday over widespread forest fires that have killed at least 63 people and left the government shaken by accusations of incompetence.
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By SHANNON DININNY  STEHEKIN, Wash. - Firefighters cut trees and vegetation Tuesday to try slowing the growth of an 11-square-mile wildfire that has chased summer tourists from this rural, mountainous region.
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All but two of what had been 24 blazes are now more than half contained, bringing firefighters close to claiming victory.
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By Christina Almeida THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  OJAI -- Teams of firefighters hiked into the wilderness Monday to fight a stubborn, two-week-old wildfire by hand that scorched more than 125 square miles of chaparral and timber along the Los Angeles- Ventura County line.
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By McKENZIE-McLEAN Jo  Emergency services are developing a plan to cope with a major fire in Christchurch's Bottle Lake Forest this summer.   Last summer, about 500 spectators obstructed police and firefighters who were battling a fire at the plantation.
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BIG TIMBER, Mont.  -- An enormous wildfire that has prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people continued to spread Monday, though winds didn't kick up as much as firefighters had feared, a Forest Service official said.