"Calif. wildfire evacuates hundreds" by Associated Press | July 31, 2010
PALMDALE, Calif. — A huge wildfire churned through high desert wilderness north of Los Angeles yesterday, destroying several buildings, and racing toward hundreds of houses.
About 2,000 structures were threatened and 300 homes were evacuated, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said.
One single-family home and three mobile home residences were destroyed, another house had roof damage, and various other outbuildings and garages were lost in the horse country region, authorities said.
A DC-10 jumbo jet tanker that can carry 12,000-gallon loads dropped swaths of retardant to block the 20-square-mile blaze, leaving orange slashes across ridges. Containment was estimated at 20 percent.
The blaze erupted Thursday afternoon....
Elsewhere, good weather in neighboring Kern County helped firefighters build containment lines around two wildfires that destroyed homes in remote mountain communities earlier in the week.
Okay, then I won't worry about it.
Firefighters prepared to battle the flames as a fast-moving wildfire approached Palmdale, Calif., on Thursday. (Dan Steinberg/Associated Press)
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"Wildfire chars 22 square miles
PALMDALE — A wildfire smoldered in the high desert north of Los Angeles yesterday, spewing smoke into a nearby town as hundreds of firefighters worked to contain the two-day-old blaze. The fire has charred nearly 22 square miles of brush in the Antelope Valley. It was 62 percent contained yesterday afternoon and no structures were threatened, fire officials said. Some 1,300 firefighters were assigned to the fire.
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"Crews gain ground on Calif. wildfires" by Associated Press | August 2, 2010
PALMDALE, Calif. — Higher humidity and lower temperatures helped firefighters nearly contain a wildfire smoldering yesterday in the high desert north of Los Angeles....
The fire was believed to have been sparked Thursday afternoon in the Agua Dulce area by someone working on a car wheel....
What?
An investigation into the cause of the fire is centering on workers who were hammering on some bolts to remove a tire rim. The workers were cooperating with the investigation.
You have to come up with a better cover story than that.
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Related: Heat is on in Russia
Consider yourselves lucky, SoCal.
Don't leave out the city:
"Industrial building explosion in South Los Angeles kills one, injures another" by Associated Press | July 31, 2010
LOS ANGELES — An industrial building with a tampered gas line exploded yesterday, killing a man who was electrocuted by a downed power line and critically injuring a man who was hurled across the street, officials said.
The blast turned the front of the wooden building in South Los Angeles into a mass of downed, shattered wooden beams....
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Related: Who Farted?
Not me.
