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California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
 Wildfires bring demand for private firefightersSeated behind the wheel of a fire engine, Dave Breglia follows a map dotted with expensive homes threatened by wildfires. His job: protect high-end real estate and save an insurance company millions of dollars.  Calif. National Guard joins firefighting effortSweat rolled down Lisa Mirander's forehead as she hacked a tangle of saplings and brush down to bare dirt to prevent a wildfire from spreading. It was a tough job, but no harder than the 13 months she served in Afghanistan.
Utility faces heat over 2007 California fires
Attorneys suing San Diego Gas & Electric Co. said Thursday their case alleging the utility failed to maintain equipment will be bolstered by a state report concluding an arcing power line caused the largest of last year's wildfires in Southern California.
Calif. wildfire makes overnight push in Concow
Firefighters dug in and took a stand early Thursday, battling to keep flames from claiming more homes in California's Sierra Nevada foothills.
Report: Faults detected on power lines before fire
A power line "faulted" more than three hours before sparking the largest of Southern California's devastating wildfires last fall, state investigators reported Wednesday.  Female inmates doing time on Calif. fire linesTracey Johnson wields a chain saw, tosses branches and rakes brush under the punishing sun and a heavy pack as smoke from a raging wildfire looms over the mountains nearby.
Wind-stoked Butte County blaze destroys 40 homes
Authorities say a wind-stoked wildfire northeast of Sacramento in Butte County has destroyed 40 homes and is threatening thousands more.
Destructive Santa Cruz Mountains fire human-caused
Fire officials say a person started the fire that began in the Santa Cruz Mountains last month and destroyed 11 buildings.  Hundreds of fires sparked by rare lightning stormIn less than a day, an electrical storm unleashed nearly 8,000 lightning strikes that set more than 800 wildfires across Northern California - a rare example of "dry lightning" that brought little or no rain but plenty of sparks to the state's parched forests and grasslands. |
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