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 Northern Los Angeles has been attacked by big flames on Tuesday. The gusty Santa Ana winds have sent the biggest wildfires from southern California. Many homes in the area were threatened by the big blazes. Special crews and helicopters tried to fight the fire which was spread on more than 20-sqaure miles above the San Fernando Valley...
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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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 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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US President George W Bush Thursday toured
areas of California devastated by wildfires over the past three weeks
and was briefed by fellow Republican California Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger and other officials. Bush did not speak to
reporters before the briefing or the aerial tour which took him above
the Trinity National...
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California firefighters gained the upper hand
Monday on a rash of wildfires that have devastated the state for three
weeks. But the problems continued in the Golden State as the violent
thunderstorms that helped douse the flames also triggered mudslides.
'If it isn't fire, it's flood. If it isn't fire or flood, it's the
mud,' said...
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 50 homes in Southern California were considerably damaged by massive mudslides provoked by a monsoon. Officials said yesterday that heavy rains brought thunderstorms to the Sierra Nevada Mountains, generating the mudslide near the city of Independence that was 300 yards wide and up to 3 feet deep. Nature’s fury also triggered to flooding...
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 While mudslides on fire-blemished territory in the eastern
Sierra Nevada constrained people to leave their properties, more gentle weather
in Northern California facilitated the
firefighters’ work in suppressing parts of the wildfires in the area and
permitted inhabitants of numerous communities to return home.
A massive mudslide...
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
ordered 2,000 more National Guard troops to the fire lines Friday as
the first fatality of the three weeks of wildfires was discovered.
The remains of the unidentified person were found in a house
destroyed when the Gap Fire swept through the town of Concow Wednesday,
said police in the...
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 Spokane Valley is fighting against the wildfires
brought by the wind in eastern Washington late Thursday. Winds with a power of
50mph have burned nearly 1,200 acres and destroyed at least four houses. The
whole tragedy sent a lot of residents in search for shelters.
The suburban Spokane Valley is situated in a heavily
wooded area,...
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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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Firefighters Monday tried to lock in gains
they made in fighting California's worst wildfires, as hotter weather
was expected to move in and make their task more difficult.
Over 300 fires were still raging across the state fought by some
20,000 firefighters, over 1,500 fire engines and over 100
water-dropping aircraft. The fires...
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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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 Blazes in San Francisco, California, are threatening more than 3,000 homes around the coastal town of Goleta. Firefighters are afraid that the fire might spread toward the city of Santa Barbara. Fire crews are trying to hold the line against Gap Fire that burnt Goleta, a town of about 30,000 residents, roughly 100 miles northwest of Los...
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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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 The burst of a devastating blaze in the Los Padres National Forest has forced authorities to evacuate
the residents who live in the canyon districts north of Goleta,
in Santa Barbara County.
Kathy Good, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman, informed the
press that the massive wildfires reduced to ashes at least 50 acres of bushes
in...
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Goleta, California, caught fire on Friday. Los Padres National Forest burnt down and officials had to evacuate the residents who were living in the canyon. Goleta is located at about 8 miles northwest Santa Barbara and this weekend, because of the dry thunderstorms, the place turned into flames.Authorities evacuated the area as fast as...
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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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 Firefighters have been trying to put an end to Florida’s dense smoke
caused by about 90 fires, since Saturday. The wildfires affected some 39,500
acres by Sunday, the largest one being in the Everglades National Park,
where up to 21,000 acres were affected and where the endangered Cape Sable
Seaside Sparrow inhabits, USA Today...
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 Nearly 70 homes were destroyed by wildfires that razed
through Palm Bay in Florida, the Associated Press reports.
Investigators are looking at arson as a possible angle since the fire appeared
to have originated from several points.
“Everytime I turn around another house is on fire. We don’t
have enough resources on our own to...
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 Wind-whipped fires near the South Carolina coast have seriously damaged
a number of structures, have sent people away from their homes and have closed
several highways.
About 60 houses were evacuated on Sunday, after the fire
sent the smoke on a distance of 15 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach, we read in the Associated
Press....
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 Snow and rain continued to cause serious problems across western
US states, authorities warning Monday that the risk of mudslides or avalanches still
exists in many regions.
Several main arteries in California were closed because
of heavy snowfall, as authorities have a hard time dealing with the harsh
weather that triggered...
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 Two avalanches swept slopes in California's San Gabriel Mountains, leaving one person dead and another missing, authorities said Saturday.A 22-year-old employee of Mountain High Resort near Wrightwood was pronounced dead Friday at a hospital after spending nearly an hour and a half trapped under heavy snow, the Los Angeles Times...
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 Rain and snow pummelled the California region Saturday, dumping nearly
two metres of snow in the Sierra Nevada and bursting a levee in Nevada
that forced the evacuation of thousands of people.
The levee broke along the Truckee Canal in Fernley, Nevada,
trapping about 3,500 people who were being rescued by US military
helicopters...
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 A powerful storm battered California on Friday leaving some 500,000
homes and businesses without power and threatening mudslides, flooding
and huge snowfalls projected to last into next week.
Meteorologists said the storm could be the worst in the state for
ten years with up to 25 centimeters of rain expected to fall Friday...
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 California was bracing Thursday for a series of storms forecast to be the worst in over a decade.
The storms were expected to bring some 25 centimeters of rain to
many areas, dump over three meters of snow in the Sierra Mountains and
cause widespread mudslides in areas devastated just two months ago by
huge wildfires.
The wet...
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 Arnold Schwarzenegger, California’s Governor stated on
Friday that he would keep his “promise” and declare a "fiscal
emergency" as he had previously signaled in order to force lawmakers to
tackle an estimated $3.3 billion state budget shortfall for the current fiscal
year.
Schwarzenegger said in a statement that the...
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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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 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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