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• Idaho fires threaten homes as wind fans flames

  Idaho fires threaten homes as wind fans flames

  Three homes burned and dozens of others were evacuated Wednesday as a wind-whipped grassfire northwest of Idaho's capital city expanded to thousands of acres and threatened rural subdivisions. No injuries were reported.

  Firefighting planes, water bucket-wielding helicopters and about 50 fire trucks, engines, water tenders, brush rigs and bulldozers were dispatched to the site about 15 miles northwest of Boise. More than 300 firefighters from multiple agencies combined to fight the blaze.

  The three homes were destroyed, as was a barn, said Lynn Hightower, a Boise Fire Department spokeswoman.

• Idaho fires threaten homes as wind fans flames

  Idaho fires threaten homes as wind fans flames

  Three homes burned and dozens of others were evacuated Wednesday as a wind-whipped grassfire northwest of Idaho's capital city expanded to thousands of acres and threatened rural subdivisions. No injuries were reported.

  Firefighting planes, water bucket-wielding helicopters and about 50 fire trucks, engines, water tenders, brush rigs and bulldozers were dispatched to the site about 15 miles northwest of Boise. More than 300 firefighters from multiple agencies combined to fight the blaze.

  The three homes were destroyed, as was a barn, said Lynn Hightower, a Boise Fire Department spokeswoman.

• Fire officials give landscaping credit for saving many homes

  Fire officials give landscaping credit for saving many homes

  The Foothills north of Eagle looked like a blackened lunar landscape Thursday, except for dozens of green plots with houses on them on the hillsides.

  While the vast majority of around 50 homes in the area north of Homer Road survived the fast-moving range fire Wednesday, four did not.

  Fire officials say it is impossible to tell exactly why those homes were consumed by fire, but a few factors may have contributed:

• Calif. fire that burned homes is partly contained

  Calif. fire that burned homes is partly contained

  Firefighters say they've partially surrounded a wildfire north of Los Angeles that has burned at least 30 homes and is threatening about 150 others.

  The blaze 10 miles south of Tehachapi (tuh-HATCH'-uh-pee) is one of two in mostly rural Kern County that have forced about 2,300 people to evacuate homes.

  County fire Engineer Dustin Allegranza says the fire near Tehachapi is 25 percent contained Wednesday morning. It has burned about 1,400 acres, or more than 2 square miles.

• Mother Nature helps firefighters battle Calif fire

  Mother Nature helps firefighters battle Calif fire

  Calm, cool weather Thursday morning dampened a wildfire that destroyed 25 buildings north of Los Angeles, but crews were prepared for afternoon winds that could kick up the flames again, a fire spokesman said.

  The blaze had burned about 2 1/4 square miles and still threatened about 150 homes, but it was 25 percent contained. If the weather cooperates, the fire should be fully surrounded by Friday, said California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman John Buchanan.

  A pattern of cool, moist morning and evening air was helping as nearly 800 firefighters carved fire lines in the eastern foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains, about 70 miles north of Los Angeles.

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