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California's Rim Fire now 20 Percent Contained, but Homes and Resources Still Threatened

2013-08-27 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World: California's Rim Fire, which now covers an area larger than Chicago, continues to burn though the Stanislaus National Forest and a portion of Yosemite National Park, but firefighters have more of a handle on the enormous wildfire than at any point to-date. Relying heavily on fire-fighting airplanes and helicopters, crews made significant gains in battling the blaze, with the latest update from the Incident Information System (Inciweb), which handles California's wildfire information, indicating...

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