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Some evacuees in AZ, NM return home from wildfires

PHOENIX — Some residents evacuated because of wildfires in Arizona and New Mexico were allowed to return to their homes Saturday as firefighters battled strong winds and hot weather to try to keep more houses, dry forests and stretches of high desert from being consumed by the flames.

By By Walter Berry, The Associated Press , June 19, 2011

Wind-driven wildfires prompt more evacuations

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The wind kicked up as predicted Friday and temperatures soared around the West as firefighters toiled to keep more homes, dry forests and stretches of high desert from being consumed by several wildfires burning throughout the Southwest.

By By Susan Montoya Bryan, The Associated Press , June 17, 2011

Fight against Arizona fire moves to NM border

LUNA, N.M. — Crews who've been battling a massive wildfire in eastern Arizona for two weeks shifted their focus Monday to New Mexico, where they lit fires to stifle a flare-up that skipped along treetops toward a small mountain town.

By By Bob Christie, The Associated Press , June 13, 2011

Massive Ariz. wildfire expected to enter NM

SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. — A massive wildfire in eastern Arizona that has claimed more than 30 homes and cabins and forced nearly 10,000 people to flee was poised to move into New Mexico on Friday, threatening more towns and possibly endangering two major power lines that bring electricity from Arizona to West Texas.

By By Susan Montoya Bryan, The Associated Press , June 10, 2011

Storm brings light rain to burned North Texas area

DALLAS (AP) — With a light drizzle falling over areas west of Fort Worth where firefighters have been battling one of several wildfires burning in Texas, crews were hoping to make progress in containing one of the blazes on Thursday.

By By Linda Stewart Ball, The Associated Press , April 21, 2011

Austin residents return to wildfire-scorched homes

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — David and Kris Griffin returned home from out-of-town weekend trips on Monday to find that their house was one of at least 20 in their Austin neighborhood destroyed or nearly destroyed by a weekend wildfire.

By By April Castro, The Associated Press , April 19, 2011

Some Texans return to homes charred by wildfires

Some Texas residents returned Saturday to homes and ranches ravaged by wildfires that have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres across the drought-stricken state.

April 16, 2011

Stunned Texans survey homes destroyed by wildfires

February 28, 2011

Neighbors rejoin man who faced Colo. fire with shovel

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Bob Arnold breathed a sigh of relief Friday morning when the ominous glow finally disappeared from the ridge behind his house. He spent four days and nights defending his home with a shovel and dirt in the shadow of a wildfire that has destroyed at least 169 homes.

September 10, 2010

Wildfire sets sights on Boulder as wind picks up

A Colorado wildfire that already has destroyed 170 homes showed no signs of relenting Thursday as wind gusts of more than 40 mph threatened to drive the flames eastward from the Rocky Mountain foothills and into the heart of Boulder, where some residents were warned to be ready to flee.

September 10, 2010

Colorado wildfire destroys 92 structures

Authorities say a wildfire burning near Boulder, Colo., has destroyed at least 92 structures and damaged another eight, but it's not clear how many of them are homes.

September 07, 2010

Calif. wildfire jumps aqueduct, approaches homes

PALMDALE, Calif. — A huge wildfire burning in the high desert wilderness north of Los Angeles has jumped the California Aqueduct and is making a run at a subdivision of homes.

By By The Associated Press , July 30, 2010

Calif. firefighters gain on worst wildfire

Hundreds of firefighters gained ground Wednesday against the most destructive of two big wildfires that have burned homes and forced 2,300 people to evacuate mountain communities on the edge of the Mojave Desert and in the southern Sierra Nevada.

July 29, 2010

Murder, arson charged in 2003 California wildfire

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A prison inmate was indicted Tuesday on murder and arson charges in a 2003 Southern California wildfire that destroyed nearly 1,000 homes and was linked to a half-dozen heart attack deaths.

October 21, 2009

Investigators look for clues into cause of Calif. fire

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators gathered along a remote road in a blackened forest Wednesday and hunted for clues at the spot where a gigantic blaze ignited more than a week ago and quickly grew into one of the largest wildfires in Southern California history.

September 02, 2009

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