Brushfire hits California south
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Strong winds and high temperatures fuel California brush fires, forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes.
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A fast-spreading wildfire has burned 500 acres of woodland in the northern section of Los Angeles County, according to U.S. Forest Service spokesman Stanton Florea.
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Firefighters gained ground Sunday against a wildfire that has burned more than 200 square miles in the Los Padres National Forest, aided by calmer winds and aircraft dropping water and fire-smothering chemicals.
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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.
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Firefighters hoped for high winds to abate on Tuesday, enabling them to start containing the fast-moving fires that have engulfed a swath of Southern California, claimed some 700 homes and sent thousands fleeing.
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More than a dozen wildfires continued to rage in southern California, driven by shifting, gusting winds that make them all but impossible to stop.
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Wildfires driven by high winds and dry conditions raged across Southern California today, scorching thousands of acres and forcing 250,000 people in San Diego County to flee their homes.
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Firefighters on Sunday battled a 9,200-acre wildfire that was bearing down on California's prized wine country and threatened to knock out power to parts of northern California.
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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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Fires raged across Southern California, burning some houses to the ground and sparing others.
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FALLBROOK, California  - Cool weather and light winds helped thousands of firefighters beat back Southern California wildfires on Saturday as residents ventured through charred landscapes to see if their homes were still standing.
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Firefighters were battling several brush fires that flared up across Southern California on Thursday, forcing authorities to evacuate hundreds of homes and temporarily shut down a stretch of a major interstate freeway.
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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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Wildfires fed by gale-force winds ravaged Southern California for a second day, destroying hundreds of homes and businesses and charring 267,000 acres.
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Crews dug firelines and reinforced others on the northwestern edge of a wildfire that crept toward hundreds of forest homes in Southern California on Thursday.
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Wildfires blown by fierce desert winds Monday reduced hundreds of Southern California homes to ashes, forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee and laid a hellish, spidery pattern of luminous orange over the drought-stricken region
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Mild winds and moist air helped firefighters gain the advantage on two wildfires that have burned through nearly 15,000 acres of dry brush in Southern California.