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California Wildfire Drives Thousands From Homes
2013-05-04 03:38:18| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Walls of wind-driven fire swept across Ventura County on Friday, forcing thousands of home evacuations, shutting down schools and offices and ravaging acres of woodland as firefighters struggled for a second day to bring an ominously early California wildfire under control. There were no reports of injuries or homes destroyed as the heat abated and fierce winds began tapering off Friday evening. But the intensity and early arrival of the year's first major wildfire -- months before such fires...
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Southern California coast wildfire threatens 4,000 homes
2013-05-04 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A fierce, wind-whipped wildfire spread on Friday along the California coast northwest of Los Angeles, threatening 4,000 homes and a military base as residents were evacuated ahead of the flames and a university campus was closed. More than 950 firefighters had built containment lines by late afternoon around about 20 percent of the inferno, which has blackened 18,000 acres of dry, dense brush and chaparral since erupting on Thursday morning. More firefighters were said to be on the way. Fire...
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California State University, Channel Islands, remains closed because of wildfire
2013-05-03 17:02:00| American School & University
Campus was evacuated Thursday when nearby wildfire spread. Safety at School read more
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California wildfire forces evacuation of university
2013-05-02 21:20:00| American School & University
California State University, Channel Islands, says heavy smoke from the fire is drifting onto campus Safety at School read more
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Dry winter, warming trend foretell US wildfire danger
2013-05-01 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Contra Costa Times: Two small but unseasonably early fires burning in northern California's wine country and another wind-whipped blaze farther south likely are a harbinger of a nasty summer fire season across the West. Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise said Wednesday in their first 2013 summer fire outlook that a dry winter and expected warming trend mean the potential for significant fire activity will be above normal on the West Coast, in the Southwest and portions of Idaho and Montana....
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