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May 13, 2022 12:23 pm Source: https://www.wildlandfirefighter.com/2022/05/13/like-an-inferno-us-west-burning-at-furious-pace/ By MARCIO J. SANCHEZ and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — Wildfires are on a furious pace early this year — from a California hilltop where mansions with multimillion-dollar Pacific Ocean views were torched to remote New Mexico mountains charred by a month-old monster blaze. The two places could…

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May 4, 2022 10:18 am Source: https://www.wildlandfirefighter.com/2022/05/04/new-mexico-governor-seeking-us-disaster-status-for-wildfire/ By CEDAR ATTANASIO and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s governor on Tuesday asked President Joe Biden to declare a disaster as firefighters scrambled to clear brush, build fire lines and spray water to keep the largest blaze burning in the U.S. from destroying more homes…

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May 4, 2022 10:15 am Source: https://www.wildlandfirefighter.com/2022/05/04/as-wildfire-closes-in-new-mexico-residents-prepare-to-flee/ LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — Wind-whipped flames raced across more of New Mexico’s pine-covered mountainsides on Monday, closing in on a town of 13,000 people where some residents hurried to pack their cars with belongings, others hustled to clear brush from around their homes, and police were called in to help evacuate…

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April 14, 2022 10:11 pm Source: https://www.wildlandfirefighter.com/2022/04/14/elderly-couple-killed-in-new-mexico-wildfire-200-structures-involved/ The remains of a New Mexico couple were found near their burned home as a wind-driven wildfire charred more than 200 residences on the edge of a mountain community in the southern part of the state. Fire crews on Thursday pointed to a break in what has been a steady stream of…

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March 6, 2022 3:48 pm Source: https://wildlandfirefighter.com/2022/03/06/wildfire-forces-evacuation-of-100s-of-homes-in-florida-panhandle/ PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Residents of hundreds of Florida Panhandle homes were evacuated as a wildfire destroyed two houses and damaged 12 others in an area that has spent years recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Michael, officials said Saturday. Hundreds of thousands of acres (hectares) of downed trees from the…

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