California turns corner on fires as Bush tours area
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Firefighters won the upper hand against most of California's wildfires on Thursday, though several still burned out of control as President George W. Bush surveyed what he called "terrible devastation" from the five-day disaster.
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A wind-driven wildfire on Saturday   threatened some of California's premier vineyards and the   winemaking city of Napa, one of several blazes kindled across   the state by dry conditions and seasonal Santa Ana winds.
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Roundup: Wildfires char large areas of land in western U.S.    LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Wildfires flared in western United States on Friday, burning more than one million acres of land.
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President George W. Bush, en route to Miami for his first presidential debate with Democratic challenger John Kerry, took time out to tour parts of Florida devastated by a string of killer storms.
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President Bush embarks this morning on a tour of the wildfires ravaging California to showcase his administration's ability to respond better to natural disasters than it did after Hurricane Katrina two years ago. Yesterday, he pronounced the federal government's actions "well-coordinated" after a...
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Firefighters gained the upper hand on nearly all of the California wildfires on Thursday as winds died down after five days battling 20 fires from the mountains north of Los Angeles down to the Mexican border.
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President Bush on Tuesday engaged Washington heavily in the wildfires sweeping across Southern California.
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While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Bush have long differed on key issues, the California wildfires have made them political allies.
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About 300 homes were evacuated Sunday as Southern California firefighters worked on a wildfire that has burned more than 80,000 acres near Los Angeles.  The evacuations were precautionary, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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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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California firefighters made headway in reining in 18 wildfires on Wednesday as hot winds abated and San Diego said it hoped to let some of the 500,000 evacuees start returning home.
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US President George W. Bush on Tuesday visited the Camp Pendleton Marines base in southern California on the 63rd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, vowing
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Some 35,000 people have fled their homes as forest wildfires force a state of emergency in southern California.
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Nearly a dozen wildfires driven by powerful Santa Ana winds spread across Southern California on Sunday, killing one person near San Diego and destroying several homes and a church in celebrity-laden Malibu.
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A rainstorm helped firefighters gain control of wildfires burning across the Sierra Nevada, including a nearly 17,000-acre blaze and a smaller fire ignited by a suspected arsonist in Yosemite National Park.
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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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LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. - Two wildfires erupted Tuesday in the forests of Southern California as a moist ocean breeze helped slow a huge blaze that has burned for more than two weeks near the coast.