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Battling Wildfire
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LUNA, N.M. - Crews battling a massive wildfire in eastern Arizona for two weeks shifted their focus Monday to New Mexico, where they lit fires to stifle flare-ups that skipped along treetops threatening a small mountain town. In the opposite corner of New Mexico, near the Colorado border, a wildfire that has forced hundreds of people from their homes more than doubled in size to an estimated 6,000 acres, after being fanned by high winds.
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CRIPPLE CREEK - Residents who fled a wildfire in Teller County aren't likely to be allowed to return home until Friday despite gains made by firefighters Thursday battling a 50-acre wildfire that has threatened homes, authorities said. Firefighters also made headway Thursday in containing two fires burning on Fort Carson's Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, one of which had grown to more than 25,000 acres on the remote training area near Trinidad.
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Firefighters from two states are battling a 1,000-acre wildfire that was reported about 12:30 p.m. Thursday north of Lyle, in Klickitat County southwest of Goldendale. No one had been reported injured Thursday night, but people living in homes in the area of state Highway 142 and the Klickitat River have been notified of the blaze, said a dispatcher with the Klickitat County Sheriffs Office. The Lions Club in Lyle is housing those who evacuated their homes.
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CRIPPLE CREEK - Residents who fled a Teller County wildfire aren't likely to be allowed to return home until today, despite gains made by firefighters Thursday battling a 50-acre wildfire that has threatened homes, authorities said. Firefighters also made headway Thursday in containing two fires burning on Fort Carson's Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, one of which had grown to more than 25,000 acres on the remote training area near Trinidad.
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ST. GEORGE -- Crews began fighting a 50-acre wildfire Thursday morning on Red Mountain northwest of St. George. The fire was likely sparked by lightning Tuesday evening and began actively burning Wednesday afternoon. The fire has not damaged any property and is four miles from Dammeron Valley, the nearest community.
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SAN BERNARDINO -- The Board of Supervisors has approved employment contracts with four people whose primary jobs will be to coordinate dead tree removal in the San Bernardino Mountains and to closely monitor contractors for compliance. At its meeting Tuesday, the board approved the contracts as part of the $70 million financial assistance agreement between the county and the Natural Resource Conservation Service for the removal of dead trees in the forest as designated by the emergency proclamation relating to the bark beetle infestation in the mountains.
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Two Arizona senators - one who spends his time in D.C. and one whose office is at the Arizona Capitol - were forced to clear their personal belongings out of family cabins in Eastern Arizona as the Wallow Fire has raged unchecked. State Sen. Adam Driggs, R-Phoenix, spent last weekend filling his suburban and a trailer with memorabilia from a family cabin near Greer, where firefighters are battling the relentless wildfire that has charred nearly 400,000 acres of forest and is still burning out of control.
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Crews battling a wildfire raging southeast of Mount Adams today will face the same dry and windy conditions that saw the blaze more than double in size the previous day. Blackening more than 8,000 acres near Trout Lake, the Cold Springs Fire is the largest the area has seen in more than a decade.
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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. In the opposite corner of New Mexico, near the Colorado border, a wildfire that has forced hundreds of people from their homes more than doubled in size to an estimated 6,000 acres, after being fanned by high winds.
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A key moment in "The Candidate," a 1972 film about California politics, involves a wildfire near Malibu. Democrat Bill McKay (Robert Redford) is desperately battling with Republican Sen. Crocker Jarmon, and when the fire breaks out, a McKay aide declares that "it's perfect.
