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 The fire from California has reached its fourth day of spreading all around the area and destroying more than 800 homes. Firefighters are desperately trying to stop it while evacuating thousands of residents. Since Thursday, when the blaze began, 800 houses, most of them million-dollar mansions, were erased in the county of Montecito....
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 Officials from Santa Barbara County, California, announced that a wildfire which started on late Thursday destroyed a big part of the canyon and obliged the residents from Montecito to flee away. The flames burnt down nearly 70 multimillion dollars homes and ranch-style houses.Because of the strong winds the blaze started to spread...
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 Firefighters received the alarm call on Sunday night as a wildfire was spreading quickly over 20 miles north of Los Angeles. Officials announced that strong winds and dry weather was expected during the night. Ron Haralson, spokesman for Los Angeles County Fire Department, stated that "There's been no open flames for hours. It's...
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 Fire in the mountains outside Yosemite National Park has destroyed more than 20 houses as firefighters said on Saturday that the fire in the area was 53% contained. The blaze caused by a target shooter reached at 90% contained in the afternoon and all evacuation orders were lifted.Fire officials in California stated that the wildfires...
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 The wildfire that threatened the area near Yosemite Park in California now permits the residents to come home. Still, the fire took thousands of homes and destroyed much of the area. The residents are allowed to return home on Thursday, after the firefighters managed to stop the fire that threatened the hills around the area too.Only two...
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 A strong wildfire burnt from 1,000 acres to 1,600 acres somewhere between Saturday morning and evening near the Yosemite National Park. The fire began on Friday afternoon when, as the authorities later discovered, two women and two men started to shoot rocks with a rifle.Because of the high temperatures and the low humidity, the fire...
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 170 houses were evacuated near the entrance to Yosemite National Park. A strong wildfire burnt from 1,000 acres to 1,600 acres somewhere between Saturday morning and evening. Only one day has offered the fire the strength to burn on both sides of a steep canyon along the Merced River.Officials say there is a lot of fuel contained in the...
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 The Witch fire
together with the Guejito fire, burned almost 200,000 acres, destroyed 1,141
homes, 239 vehicles and 509 buildings in San Diego on October, 21, last year. Two persons were burned to
death.
It seems that the power line had three hours
to be detected before sparking the largest wildfire of Southern California....
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 By Wednesday, 10,000 people were evacuated from
Butte County. A third of the town of Paradise and its single hospital were
evacuated too. The blaze threatened 3,800 houses.
The Butte Lightning Complex Fire burned only two
houses since it started, on June 21, but destroyed 48 more that day.
Firefighters tried to stop the fire from...
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 Fire destroyed dozens of homes in Big
Sur, but on Tuesday the residents could go back home, as the fire
eased. Unfortunately, it is not over yet. 300 miles north, in Butte County,
fire and blazes took over the whole place.
It seems that the fire was burning since June 21 at The
Butte Lightning Complex Fire, but on Tuesday night,...
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 Thousands of residents north of Sacramento have been ordered to evacuate
their homes after irregular airstreams blew embers across wildfire repression
lines, the most recent impediment for already pressured firefighters.
Authorities forced the residents of 3,200 homes in Paradise to abandon their houses on Tuesday after...
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 Additional firefighting crews were requested on Monday to
help combat a massive wildfire in Southern California
in order to profit from the wearing off winds before the forecasted higher
temperatures and possible lightning storms turn up later this week, officials
said.
The blaze which erupted in Santa
Barbara County is one
of...
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
extended California's state of emergency Thursday, declaring disaster
status in Santa Barbara county where a wildfire threatened the coastal
community of Goleta.
The Gap Fire has burned some 970 hectares and the order made Santa
Barbara the most southern of the 11 counties to be declared a...
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 Progress was made on Friday in what concerns the wildfires
that have affected approximately 300 square miles of California,
while the famous resort areas of Big Sur have
been devastated by a 27,000-acre wildfire.
Firefighters tried to face the disaster breaking out at the
well-known coastal resort. A lot of restaurants, houses and...
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The Santa Cruz Mountains area
burst into flames a few days ago and since then people are fighting desperately
to stop the persistent wildfire. All that the fire leaves behind is ashes. Six square
miles of centuries-old wood has turned into a battlefield, nature versus
humans. At least 20 houses were destroyed and another 570...
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 Firefighters have gained the upper hand against the wildfire that
forced thousands of residents of the California beach town of Malibu
from their homes, fire officials said Sunday.
"We're getting a pretty good handle on it," LA County Fire
Inspector Ron Haralson told the Los Angeles Times Sunday, adding that
70 per cent...
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 After a spreading wildfire in Plumas County,
vast smoke clouds are flooding the valleys surrounding the area.
The fire has been burning for three days now and has yet to
be contained.
Plumas County's three-day-old “Moonlight fire” is burning in
rugged terrain on a ridgeline bordering the Plumas and Lassen National...
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 The western area of the United States are swept by savage wildfires, authorities reporting a small success in their battle with the blazes on Monday after rain fell in several regions.Officials from South Dakota reported the death of one person who tried to save some of his goods from the burning house, 27 residences homes being...
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 A savage blaze powered by strong winds swept across a vast area near Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains, burning down more than 200 homes and prompting the evacuation of 1,000 persons.The wildfire erupted Sunday a few miles south of the famous lake, but quickly spread to other regions due to the powerful wind. About 750 firemen...
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Firefighters in New Jersey battled Wednesday a massive wildfire that had spread over more than 20 square miles of brush and pine forest after a military jet dropped a flare on a bombing range. The fire started Tuesday at 2:15 p.m. at the Warren Grove Firing Range."Normally flares burn out before coming in contact with the...
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 The rocky island of Santa Catalina is devastated by a powerful wildfire that started Thursday and already caused the evacuation of thousands of inhabitants.Firefighters are trying to contain the blaze as it approaches the island’s only city, Avalon. About 85 per cent of the population is living in Avalon and more than 1,000 houses in the...
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