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Officials: 1,000 Texas homes burned in past week

WILL WEISSERT Yahoo! News 09/06/2011

Wildfire destroys nearly 500 homes in Texas

WILL WEISSERT and MICHAEL GRACZYK My Way News 09/05/2011
Officials: 1,000 Texas homes burned in past week

More than 1,000 homes have been destroyed in at least 57 wildfires across rain-starved Texas, most of them in one devastating blaze near Austin that is still raging out of control, officials said Tuesday.

Wildfire destroys nearly 500 homes in Texas

Firefighters trying to control a wind-fueled wildfire that has destroyed nearly 500 homes in Central Texas were looking for a few overnight hours of diminished winds as thousands of evacuees spent the night away from their threatened homes.

Los Alamos nuclear lab under siege from wildfire

P. SOLOMON BANDA,SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Yahoo! News 06/28/2011
Two cousins charged with starting largest ever Arizona wildfire

Two cousins who allegedly left a campfire unattended have been charged with starting Arizona's largest ever wildfire that torched more than 800 square miles of wilderness before it was contained. prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Los Alamos nuclear lab under siege from wildfire

A wildfire burning near the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb advanced on the Los Alamos laboratory and thousands of outdoor drums of plutonium-contaminated waste Tuesday as authorities stepped up efforts to protect the site from flames and monitor the air for radiation.

Wildfire roars out of West Texas canyons to menace homes

Elliott Blackburn Yahoo! News Canada 04/26/2011
Wildfire roars out of West Texas canyons to menace homes

Gale-force winds whipped flames from a stubborn wildfire in West Texas out of deep mountain canyons and back in the direction of populated areas on Tuesday, prompting an evacuation of some nearby homes.

U.S. sends help as fires close in on Russian nuclear base

The United States is sending firefighting equipment to Russia to help deal with 500 wildfires burning across the country, one of which threatens a nuclear base.

1,200 called to fight fire near Santa Cruz

Michael Cabanatuan San Francisco Chronicle 10/25/2009
Australian town declared natural disaster after being ravaged by fires

Wildfires raging out of control in Western Australia have destroyed up to 40 homes in an outback town, weeks before the country's bushfire season begins.

1,200 called to fight fire near Santa Cruz

SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS -- More than 1,000 firefighters raced into the Santa Cruz Mountains on Sunday as a wind-whipped blaze burning in rugged canyons threatened dozens of homes in the same community that was devastated by flames last year.

Southern California mountain blaze 75 percent contained

WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. — The wildfire burning near the community of Wrightwood in the San Bernardino Mountains was 75 percent contained at 7,128 acres Tuesday night, officials said.

Cool weather helps firefighters in California

WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. — Cooling temperatures and higher humidity early Monday gave firefighters some welcome relief as they waged an ongoing assault against a wildfire that had burned to the edges of a popular resort town in the San Gabriel Mountains.


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