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Thousands more were ordered to leave as the authorities grew worried about the out-of-control nature of the fire.

Stiff winds whipped up a gigantic blaze in the mountains of eastern Arizona on Monday, forcing the evacuation of a third resort town and casting a smoky haze over states as far away as Iowa....

Two Arizona wildfires have consumed more than 200,000 acres and prompted evacuations, officials said.

Two wildfires burning in Colorado on Friday prompted the evacuations of the homes of 1,700 people as well as more in neighboring foothills where dozens of houses were burned in a blaze last month.

Residents displaced by a giant wildfire near Boulder, Colorado, began returning home Sunday while, 40 miles to the north, another fire forced evacuations west of Loveland.

A wind-driven wildfire in the rugged Colorado foothills spread across 5 1/2 square miles Monday, destroying an unknown number of homes and triggering the evacuation of 1,000 others, authorities said.

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Two fires sprang up in northern Los Angeles County Thursday. An out-of-control wildfire burning north of State Route 14 was closing in on homes in the hills around Palmdale.

A brush fire devoured 30 to 40 homes and triggered evacuations in a remote section of a southern California mountains community on Tuesday, a Kern County Fire Department engineer said.

A wildfire raging near Flagstaff, Arizona, has grown to more than 5,000 acres, shutting down part of U.S. Route 89, and it is wholly uncontained, according to the Coconino County website.

Officials issued new evacuation orders this morning as a Ventura County wildfire grew to nearly 8,500 acres.