incendio da california

California fire evacuees top 500,000; second death
Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:04 PM EDT
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said 6,800 homes were threatened statewide and 18 firefighters were injured among the 6,000 manning the fire lines.
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More than 300,000 acres have burned, an area about twice the size of Chicago, stretching fire crews and state emergency services to their limits. But federal authorities said the emergency response was well under control.
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Evacuees at Qualcomm said the operation was well organized and clean, a sharp contrast to the chaos at New Orleans' Superdome, which was used as a refuge after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city in 2005.


Five dead in California fires and mass evacuation
Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:21 PM EDT

Most of the destroyed homes were in the San Diego area, where three major wildfires burned unchecked and half a million people were ordered to leave in what may be the largest U.S. evacuation since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005.
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Schwarzenegger said 68,000 homes, from cabins to luxury villas, were threatened statewide and 6,000 men and women were working the fire lines. More than 300,000 acres (120,000 hectares) have been blackened and the state government put economic losses in the hundreds of millions.

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