Firefighters fight 60 wildfires in west
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Federal officials on Friday were tracking 60 large, active fires that were burning more than 1 million acres, or more than 1,500 square miles, across the West.
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A wind-fueled grass fire destroyed three homes Thursday night, west of where crews gained ground on a separate 1,240-acre mountain wildfire, firefighters said.
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Fire crews guarded homes and ranches Wednesday as a stubborn wildfire that has jumped containment lines crept within a half-mile of hundreds of dwellings.
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More than 60 firefighters are tackling a blaze at a engineering works in County Londonderry.
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About 300 homes were evacuated Sunday as Southern California firefighters worked on a wildfire that has burned more than 80,000 acres near Los Angeles.  The evacuations were precautionary, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Fire officials have evacuated hundreds of people from their homes as wildfires raged through Northern California and Montana.
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Firefighters battling a wildfire that has blackened nearly 290 square miles and burned 26 homes faced a new challenge, authorities said Wednesday: bees.
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Aided by light winds, firefighters made "outstanding" inroads Monday against a wildfire that has killed three people and burned more than 54 square miles.
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After a week of battling raging wildfires that cutoff villages, killed 64 people and burned nearly 500,000 acres of land, fire department officials said Thursday that just one major blaze remained to bring under control.
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Calm, cooler weather and unusually high humidity Friday helped firefighters battling a wildfire that had threatened hundreds of homes and burned four cabins.
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Crews worked through the night to fight a wildfire that has blackened nearly 100 square miles and chased scores of people from their homes in the northern Sierra Nevada.
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Albanian firefighters fought for some 30 hours to control a fire in three fuel storage tanks Monday at the western Albanian port of Shengjin.Comment
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By William M. Welch  LOS ANGELES -- Extremely dry brush and fickle winds have kept alive for more than three weeks a wildfire that is only 40% contained and has scorched 200 square miles of mountainous terrain northwest of Los Angeles.
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Dozens of wildfires burning Tuesday across southern Australia destroyed more than a dozen homes and a popular ski lodge, while residents in a suburb of the western city of Perth were urged to flee an approaching blaze.
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BIG TIMBER, Mont. - Heavy smoke has slowed firefighters battling a 280-square-mile wildfire and also prompted air-quality warnings for much of western Montana.
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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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White and yellow smoke billowed into the western Colorado sky Tuesday as firefighters battled three wildfires likely sparked by lightning that have burned more than 1,800 acres and forced evacuations of 90 homes.