Crews taming blaze at Lake Tahoe
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - Firefighters began containing a wildfire near California's popular Lake Tahoe resort on Monday after it engulfed 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) and destroyed or damaged more than 200 homes, officials said.
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Firefighters tightened their grip on a massive forest fire in northern California on Friday, with calm weather assisting efforts to contain the blaze, US Forest Service officials said.
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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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By GILLIAN FLACCUS  OJAI, Calif. - Helicopters lifted off as winds calmed Sunday, ferrying water and transporting firefighters to battle a three-week-old wildfire that has scorched more than 200 square miles of the Los Padres National Forest.
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Firefighters continued making progress today in taming the wildfires that devastated Southern California this week, but thousands of homes remained imperiled and officials said they had found two burned bodies in a home outside San Diego.
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An infusion of fresh manpower helped firefighters gain the upper hand Tuesday on a wildfire that had burned across more than 12,500 acres and destroyed four homes in Northern California's wine country.
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A 4-square-mile wildfire burning near Lake Tahoe in California may take a week to contain, local officials said Tuesday.  It's a pretty big area, Sgt. Don Atkinson of the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department told The Los Angeles Times.
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WASHINGTON _ Wildfires around California's Lake Tahoe and Alaska's Kenai Peninsula are fanning the firefighting costs that officials are trying to curtail.
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A wind-driven blaze near Lake Tahoe that started on Sunday forced 1,000 people to flee their homes today.
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BIG TIMBER, Mont. - Crews battling an enormous wildfire braced for hot, windy weather Monday after hundreds of people were evacuated from the path of the flames.
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By CATHERINE TSAI  NEW CASTLE, Colo. - 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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By Mike Zapler, Rod Foo and Leslie Griffy, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 25--A massive wildfire is burning toward South Lake Tahoe today. The fire has scorched more than 2,500 acres, destroying more than 225 buildings and forcing hundreds of residents to flee from their homes.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 26--LAKE TAHOE -- The Angora fire ravaging the South Lake Tahoe area jumped over Highway 89 this afternoon forcing hundreds of residents along Tahoe Keys Drive to fight or flee.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California  - A forest fire raged out of control for a second day on Monday in the popular California resort of Lake Tahoe, destroying at least 220 homes and forcing up to 1,000 people to evacuate, officials said.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 27--SOUTH LAKE TAHOE -- What happened Tuesday was unexpected. Today, they know it could get worse.
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By Aaron C. Davis  MEYERS, Calif. - A raging wildfire near Lake Tahoe on Monday forced hundreds of residents to flee towering flames that destroyed more than 200 buildings, turned the sky orange and fouled the lake's famously clear waters with falling ash.
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Firefighters racing the weather for control of a turbulent wildfire near this popular resort got a break Wednesday as high winds forecast to arrive by early afternoon held off, giving crews time to shore up their defenses.