Fierce heatwave fans US wildfires
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Scorching temperatures in the western US cause a string of fires, threatening homes and highways.
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Dozens of forest fires, fanned by strong  winds in a six-day heatwave, raged across central and southern  Greece on Thursday, killing two people and burning scores of  houses.
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A California wildfire fanned by powerful winds burned out of control on Sunday in the celebrity seaside enclave of Malibu, forcing hundreds of people to flee and destroying a handful of multimillion-dollar homes.
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Blistering heat and hot dry winds have fanned the fires. Forests fires that have ravaged southern Europe during the past month were some of the worst on record, the European Commission has said. via Jackaranda
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BBC News website readers in the US and Europe have been describing the extreme heatwaves sweeping their regions.
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Firefighters Sunday were battling two raging wildfires in Southern California that forced nearly 2,000 people to evacuate.
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Cooler temperatures and higher humidity helped firefighters Monday as they got closer to fully containing one of the largest wildfires in California history.
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Wind-blown wildfires threatened more than 1,100 homes in Colorado and Arizona, where drought conditions and gusting winds created ideal conditions for spreading the flames.
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Hot, dry Santa Ana winds gusting to more than 50 mph on Saturday grounded water-dropping helicopters and stoked the flames of a three-week-old wildfire in Los Padres National Forest.
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Fierce desert winds continued to propel a series of wildfires in southern California yesterday, causing 300,000 people to flee their homes and destroying more than 1,000 homes in the San Diego area alone.
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"The next few hours will be critical"  Forest fires whipped by gale-force winds killed at least 15 people in southern Greece Friday, including at least nine people trapped in their cars as the flames approached.Across the country, more than 150 fires were burning, and the government appealed to the European Union to 'send any help they can,' acting Interior Minister Spyros Flogaitis said after an emergency meeting of Greece's civil protection department.Hot, dry winds gusting to gale force prevented firefighting planes from taking off, leaving only ground forces to fight the flames in the southern Peloponnese, with occasional help from helicopters and residents using their garden hoses. A three-day heat wave, with temperatures up to 104 degrees, has left forests and scrubland parched on the peninsula linked to the Greek mainland by a narrow isthmus. Read more
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Huge wildfires, such as the ones that have charred more than 460,000 acres this week in Southern California, are becoming more common in the Western United States, and scientists say warming trends and other climate factors may be responsible.
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Calm, cooler weather and unusually high humidity Friday helped firefighters battling a wildfire that had threatened hundreds of homes and burned four cabins.
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Scorching heat that has gripped Southern California for more than a week is responsible for at least 14 deaths, authorities said Tuesday.
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Heat waves in the 21st Century will be more intense, more frequent and longer, US experts say.
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Wildfires driven by high winds and dry conditions raged across Southern California today, scorching thousands of acres and forcing 250,000 people in San Diego County to flee their homes.
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SILVERADO CANYON, California  - Cool weather and calm skies helped thousands of firefighters beat back Southern California wildfires on Saturday, although flare-ups in some places meant the battle was not yet over.