Box Elder Fire Burns 3,800 Acres
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By Rebecca Palmer Deseret Morning News and Associated Press  Several wildfires burned throughout Utah on Sunday, with the largest occurring in Box Elder County after lightning struck.
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Residents of a small western Colorado town pulled together Friday to help three families who lost their homes to a wind-driven wildfire.
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A huge fire of undetermined origin this morning gutted Prince George&#39;s County&#39;s 123-year-old, largely vacant courthouse building in Upper Marlboro, occupying hundreds of firefighters and threatening
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By Sherry Youngquist, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 23--MOUNT AIRY   Firefighters battled more than 27 wildfires in the Piedmont and foothills yesterday.   About 40 acres burned, said the N.C. Division of Forest Resources, which helped local firefighters with the fires.
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Residents of about 200 Southern California homes were ordered to evacuate on Sunday as a brush fire whipped by hot gusting winds scorched 500 acres
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Firefighters were in the final stage Sunday of surrounding one of the biggest blazes in state history, which has burned 254 square miles of brush and timber since erupting Labor Day.
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A wind-fueled grass fire destroyed three homes Thursday night, west of where crews gained ground on a separate 1,240-acre mountain wildfire, firefighters said.
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Crews used controlled fires to gain ground against an 1,800-acre blaze in western Colorado, but forecasters predicted more hot, dry weather and wind gusts on Thursday.
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A wind-fueled wildfire roared through an old mining town near Redding on Sunday, destroying 20 homes and forcing nearly 125 residents to flee, officials said. The blaze broke out Saturday afternoon and quickly grew to 2,500 acres, sweeping through the mountain community of French Gulch, about 20 miles east of Redding, said Linda Galvan, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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By Gene Warner  A fire at a Grand Island home early Friday caused an estimated $400,000 damage and led to the arrest of the 44-year-old homeowner, who was accused of interfering with firefighters and police officers.  Volunteer firefighters responded to a 2:46 a.m.
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A fast-moving wildfire burning in eastern Utah killed three men who were working in a hay field, authorities said.
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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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LIVINGSTON, Mont. - A wildfire in an area peppered with property owned by celebrities nearly doubled in size Wednesday, prompting evacuation orders for about 325 homes.  The fire was estimated at 18,845 acres, or about 29 square miles, information officer Al Nash said.
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MOSS BLUFF - A voluntary evacuation order was lifted hours after natural gas from an underground storage cavern exploded near the Liberty-Chambers county line Thursday morning, sending flames 150 to 200 feet into the air ...
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A fast-moving brush fire scorched 1,000 acres of parched hillside and charred at least two homes Sunday, forcing authorities to evacuate more than 200 homes, Orange County fire officials said.
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More than 3,000 firefighters are battling some of Australia's worst wildfires in 70 years, as flames fanned by strong winds and searing temperatures destroyed one home and threatened dozens more.
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By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 21--The Caribou Hills fire burning east of Ninilchik since Tuesday grew to more than 6,600 acres today, state officials estimate.