California wildfire forces evacuations
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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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Hundreds of people were forced to evacuate their homes and an interstate was closed in two of the many wildfires that dotted the West on Friday.
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California wildfires that have destroyed 1,300 homes and forced the evacuation of 500,000 people raged into a fifth day on Thursday, but firefighters seized on a break in the weather to largely halt the march of destruction.
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Firefighters hoped for high winds to abate on Tuesday, enabling them to start containing the fast-moving fires that have engulfed a swath of Southern California, claimed some 700 homes and sent thousands fleeing.
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Wildfires blown by fierce desert winds Monday reduced scores of Southern California homes to ashes, forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee and laid a hellish, spidery pattern of luminous orange over the drought-stricken region.
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By CHRISTINA ALMEIDA OJAI, Calif. - Firefighters lost ground Sunday against a large blaze in a national forest as gusty winds fanned the flames, shutting down highways and prompting officials to urge evacuations.
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Fires raged across Southern California, burning some houses to the ground and sparing others in their path.
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The wildfires in California have forced an exodus of estimated 950,000 people from their homes. But where have they all gone?
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Sparked by lightning and fanned by erratic winds, a wildfire in western Colorado has spread to within a half mile of a 400-home subdivision, forcing evacuations, fire officials said on Tuesday.
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Firefighters were battling several brush fires that flared up across Southern California on Thursday, forcing authorities to evacuate hundreds of homes and temporarily shut down a stretch of a major interstate freeway.
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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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California wildfires that have destroyed 1,300 homes and forced the evacuation of 500,000 people raged into a fifth day on Thursday but firefighters seized on a break in the weather to largely halt the march of destruction.
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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 in California suffer a setback as a wildfire jumps a village defence line, forcing hundreds to flee.
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Firefighters tackled a ferocious forest fire near California&#39;s Lake Tahoe on Monday that destroyed up to 220 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,000 people, officials said.
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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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Relentless wildfires forcing the largest evacuations in California's modern history raged into a fourth day on Wednesday as 10,000 exhausted firefighters hoped for a break in the hot winds whipping the flames.