Arsonist hunted as fires beaten back
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Arson investigations were under way in four California counties on Friday, as firefighters gradually gained control of wildfires that have burned nearly half a million acres this week.
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Flames fanned by strong winds and high temperatures hamper firefighters tackling bush fires in south-eastern Australia.
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Firefighters try to stop a blaze spreading as three homes in one street are alight and four people are reported injured.
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The barrage of brutal wildfires in Greece hit hardest in a popular tourist destination, but with fires starting to come under control, tourists are trickling back in.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Quebec provincial police are trying to determine if a man was set on fire at his home as retribution for killing a cyclist four years ago.
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People who lost their homes and belongings to a devastating wildfire were allowed to briefly return to their burned-out neighborhoods Friday as authorities declared the blaze mostly contained.
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Police appeal for keyholders to check premises at a Coleraine retail park after a  fire in a DIY store.
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Twenty people are moved from their homes as firefighters tackle a blaze in County Londonderry.
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A FARMER may be ordered to replant a small forest after chopping down the trees to use as firewood.   Alan Whiteford felled more than half of the young wood before forestry officials caught him.
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When a wildfire burns through tens of thousands of acres of California brush, tracking a suspected arsonist sounds like a classic case of looking for the needle in the haystack.
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A man is jailed for conducting an arson campaign against people he thought had links with the vivisection industry.
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All possible motives remain open to investigators for the arson that destroyed a dozen unoccupied homes at an upscale suburban development opposed by environmentalists, a fire official said Tuesday.
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A major fire which caused millions of pounds of damage was started deliberately, say police.
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Philadelphia -- A fast-moving arson fire killed six people in a rowhouse before dawn Saturday, four of them children, police said.
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Investigators try to find the cause of a hotel fire that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people.
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FORTY firefighters yesterday battled a major blaze which erupted at a skip hire company on a North Wales industrial estate.   Six fire engines, the environmental protection unit and the aerial ladder platform, were scrambled to Alan's Skip Hire on Wrexham Industrial Estate.
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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.