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U.S. / NEWS Wed May 21, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- A wind-whipped grass fire burned several acres near the top of San Bruno Mountain on Tuesday, threatening one home before firefighters extinguished the blaze. Dozens of firefighters battled the three-alarm, 7-acre fire to keep it from spreading, and ma.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 28, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

MSNBC -- Firefighters gained ground Sunday against an early season wildfire that slowly chewed its way through dense brush near Los Angeles, forcing more than 1,000 people from homes in the foothills. About 500 firefighters attacked the 400-acre fire, aided by.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 28, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- Firefighters had a close call early Monday as they worked to keep a wildfire away from homes in the foothills east of Los Angeles. Winds, which had been fairly tame, unexpectedly kicked up, sending flames within yards of several houses on the northern.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 26, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

MSNBC -- Balzary had purchased another home in Malibu last year, but the one destroyed was for sale for $4.8 million, the Los Angeles Times reported. Hundreds of firefighters and equipment from throughout the state had been positioned in Southern California for.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Nov 24, 2007 @ 12:20pm neoform

Google Associated Press -- Firefighters in major cities are being trained to take on a new role as lookouts for terrorism, raising concerns of eroding their standing as American icons and infringing on people's privacy. Unlike police, firefighters and emergency medical personnel.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Nov 30, 2006 @ 2:16pm mrmdc

SF Gate -- The home of a San Francisco man who once tormented his neighbors by tracking them with surveillance cameras and blaring music from the roof went up in flames Wednesday, in what firefighters called an accidental blaze... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 23, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- After a day of chasing wind-whipped flames up and down ravines dried out by a rainless spring, firefighters in the Santa Cruz Mountains are counting on a break today. The gales that pushed the Summit Fire across more than 3,000 acres of woods and brush.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 13, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Relentless wildfires burned into the early morning Tuesday across Florida's Atlantic coast, taxing firefighters and overwhelming residents trying to save their homes with garden hoses. Firefighters in the Brevard County town of Palm Bay have spent more.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 16, 2008 @ 8:08am neoform

CNN -- Firefighters were hoping rain and snow Wednesday would help them quell blazes that scorched thousands of acres, forced hundreds of residents to evacuate and left three people dead. Winds gusted up to 50 mph along the Rocky Mountain Front Range and eastern.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Apr 14, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- For decades, Seattle has led the nation in 911 medical response with a strategy of basic life-support services by firefighters trained as emergency medical technicians, advanced care by paramedics when needed, and citizen participation in lifesaving. T.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 26, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

SF Gate -- Continued weakening of the seasonal Santa Ana winds allowed firefighters to step up their battle against devastating wildfires Thursday, though thousands of homes remained under threat from advancing flames and the death toll rose with the discovery of se.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 25, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- A massive aerial assault and a break in harsh winds helped firefighters make their first major progress against Southern California's firestorm, raising evacuees' hopes of returning home for good. But flames were still drawing perilously toward thousands.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 24, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- After three days of a vicious firestorm, exhausted firefighters and weary residents looked forward Wednesday to a break — an expected slackening of the gale force winds that have ignited the state's largest complex of wildland blazes. Forecasters sai.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Presidential politics and the health of ground zero workers loom over the former World Trade Center site this September 11 perhaps more than at any other anniversary of the attacks. The firefighters who helped rescue New Yorkers on September 11 -- and lat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 22, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- Bloomberg defended the department’s decision to send more than 100 firefighters up into the building to fight the blaze, saying they bravely improvised in a crisis situation. Firefighters Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia died of smoke inhalation.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 19, 2007 @ 1:52pm neoform

MSNBC -- A seven-alarm fire ripped through an abandoned skyscraper next to ground zero in Lower Manhattan Saturday, killing two firefighters who were responding to the blaze. Officers at the scene were preventing nearby residents from returning to their homes,.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 15, 2007 @ 3:54pm neoform

USA Today -- Residents of a rural Montana subdivision who fled a fast-moving wildfire were expected to briefly return home Wednesday amid a break in winds as firefighters statewide battled more than a dozen blazes that had burned a combined area of 589 square miles... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jul 14, 2007 @ 10:16pm neoform

CNN -- Firefighters tried to contain about a dozen lightning-caused fires in Washington state on Saturday, hours before another thunderstorm was expected to give them more work. Close to 2,700 lightning strikes were reported in Washington and Oregon on Friday an.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 2, 2007 @ 11:02pm neoform

USA Today -- Aided by light winds, firefighters made "outstanding" inroads Monday against a wildfire that has killed three people and burned nearly 50 square miles. About two dozen people in this town were allowed to return home as crews maintained fire lines near.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 28, 2007 @ 1:09am neoform

FOX News -- Efforts to tame a raging wildfire that has destroyed some 200 homes near Lake Tahoe suffered a setback when a backfire set by firefighters to control the blaze jumped a fireline, forcing a new round of evacuations, authorities said. Firefighters were w.. Read More