Armies of firefighters try to get a handle on brush blazes.
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Jun 21 2011 10:57PM
Cody Duty /
Houston Chronicle
Gordon Young holds a hose to keep it from kinking while he helps pump water from the pond owned by neighbor Ed Laikep in Plantersville. "This is the closest place to the fire. All the other natural ponds are all dried up," Young says. "I'll be glad when it's all over and the rain comes."
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Jun 21 2011 8:50PM
Cody Duty /
Houston Chronicle
A firefighter drags a hose at they pump water from a pond owned by Ed Laikep on Tuesday, June 21, in Plantersville. Firefighters continue to work to keep the fire from spreading as it has already consumed 30 homes and 5,800 acres in Grimes County.
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Jun 21 2011 10:57PM
Cody Duty /
Houston Chronicle
An airplane drops retardant Tuesday in Plantersville.
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Jun 21 2011 8:52PM
Cody Duty /
Houston Chronicle
Glenn Olive, a volunteer helping the firefighters north of Houston , takes a minute to rest Tuesday.
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Jun 21 2011 8:53PM
Cody Duty /
Houston Chronicle
Lee Bentley with the Texas Forest Service watches while a helicopter prepares to drop retardant Tuesday in Plantersville.
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Jun 20 2011 8:41PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Dyer Mills fire continues to move fast about three miles east of Whitehall in Grimes County on Monday, June 20.
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Jun 20 2011 6:00PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Alexis Guerra, 8, visits the shelter near Todd Mission after evacuating with her family out of Grimes County Road 304 and Tall Pine on Monday, June 20, in Stoneham.
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Jun 20 2011 6:05PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Wildfire consumed a home near Grimes County Road 304 where the fire continues to burn south of Texas 105 on Monday, June 20.
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Jun 20 2011 6:01PM
David Kadlubowski /
Associated Press
A home burns from the Monument Fire near Sierra Vista, Ariz. on Sunday, June 19.
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Jun 19 2011 10:28AM
Greg Bryan /
Associated Press
Flames are seen over homes in Sierra Vista, Ariz., on Thursday. The biggest wildfire in state history was closing in on a half-million acres burned.
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Jun 20 2011 8:40PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Livestock seems oblivious to any danger from wildfires Monday, June 20, in Stoneham.
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Jun 20 2011 8:38PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Linda Mock views the thick black smoke from FM 362 east of Whitehall on Monday, June 20, about three miles east of Whitehall in Grimes County.
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Jun 20 2011 8:39PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Smoke billows on the Stoneham horizon from wildfires Monday in Grimes County.
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Jun 20 2011 8:39PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
A helicopter hovers over the fast-moving Dyer Mills fire as it continues to burn about three miles east of Whitehall in Grimes County on Monday, June 20.
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Jun 20 2011 5:57PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Stephen Kimich of the Anderson Volunteer Fire Department helps put out flares along County Road 304 south of Stoneham where wildfires continue to burn Monday, June 20.
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Jun 20 2011 5:58PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Robbie Jordan views his friends backyard where vehicles were consumed by wildfire, but his home was spared at the end of Millstone Drive, south of Stoneham on June 20.
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Jun 20 2011 6:01PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Flares continue to spark along Grimes County Road 304, just south of Stoneham, on June 20.
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Jun 20 2011 6:05PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Volunteer firefighters cleans off while extinguishing flares in Grimes County, just south of Stoneham, on Monday, June 20.
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Jun 20 2011 5:54PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
A bench swing is all that remains after the wildfire destroyed property along County Road 304 in Grimes County, just south of Stoneham on Monday, June 20.
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Jun 20 2011 5:53PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Homes and vegetation are burned black by wildfire along County Road 304 south of Stoneham on Monday, June 20.
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Jun 20 2011 5:56PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Homes along Millstone Drive were evacuated Sunday because of wildfires moving through south of Stoneham on Monday, June 20.
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Jun 20 2011 5:57PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Rick Hysong stops at long Texas 105 at his friend's house to view the wildfire smoke burning south of Stoneham on Monday, June 20, in Stoneham. Hysong evacuated from Navasota.
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Jun 20 2011 5:59PM
Mayra Beltran /
Chronicle
Robbie Jordan stomps on a piece of wood that is smoldering in his friend's backyard where vehicles were burned, but home was spared at the end of Millstone Drive south of Stoneham.
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Jun 19 2011 10:31AM
Patrick T Fallon /
Houston Chronicle
Closer to home, Leonard Brown spotted smoke and burning embers from a wildfire in Spring last week.
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Jun 19 2011 10:31AM
Patrick T Fallon /
Houston Chronicle
A helicopters flies in a water bucket to help control the Spring-area wildfire on Friday, June 17.
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Jun 19 2011 10:32AM
Patrick T Fallon /
Houston Chronicle
Texas Forest Service ground crews coordinate their next buldozer fire line strategy Friday while trying to control the Spring wildfire.
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Jun 19 2011 6:21PM
Brett Coomer /
Chronicle
A Houston firefighter hoses down a patch of scorched ground near Hirsch Road and Downs Lane. Several acres in woods burned.
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Jun 19 2011 10:26AM
Joel Andrews /
Associated Press
A large column of smoke from wildfires burning in Trinity, Polk and Jasper counties can be seen in the western sky Saturday in Lufkin, Texas. The Texas Forest Service and numerous volunteer fire departments, including Hudson and Diboll, are out assisting on the Polk/Trinity fire according to Karen Stafford with the Texas Forest Service.
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Jun 19 2011 10:38AM
Ed Andrieski /
Associated Press
A slurry bomber drops a load of fire retardant on the leading edge of the Duckett wildfire north of Westcliffe, Colo., on Thursday, June 16. That fire has burned over 2,900 acres since it started last Sunday.
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Jun 20 2011 5:48AM
Pat Shannahan /
Arizona Republic
A Bisbee, Ariz., police officer helps with the transfer of horses during a mandatory evacuation in Hereford, Ariz. One mare broke free during the effort.
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Jun 20 2011 5:51PM
David Kadlubowski /
The Arizona Republic
The Monument Fire burns a hillside just south of Sierra Vista, Ariz. on Sunday, June 19.
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Jun 19 2011 10:42AM
Jill Torrance /
Associated Press
Dillon Snyder, 16, walks quickly with his brother Ethan Snyder, 8, away from their home after a new fire broke out Friday on Fort Huachuca, in Sierra Vista, Ariz.
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Jun 19 2011 10:52AM
Rick Bowmer /
AP
Along the New Mexico-Colorado border on Friday, a sky crane CH-44 drops water northeast of Raton, N.M. Winds Thursday pushed one fire toward breaks that had been carved into the rugged landscape by bulldozers. Crews had anticipated the fire's movement and were prepared to hold the line with help from helicopters and air tankers.
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Jun 19 2011 10:44AM
Jill Torrance /
Associated Press
Sierra Vista residents Krista and Lee Hopper comfort their children, Jessica, 10, and Tyler, 3, while waiting to hear from Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday at one of the evacuation centers for people displaced by the Monument Fire in Sierra Vista, Ariz.
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Jun 19 2011 10:48AM
Clyde Mueller /
Associated Press
In New Mexico, a huge plume from the Pacheco Canyon Wildfire filled the Santa Fe skies Saturday as it burns in the Santa Fe National Forest 6 miles northeast of Tesuque.
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Jun 19 2011 10:45AM
Greg Bryan /
Associated Press
Large plumes of smoke rise from a fire that started on Fort Huachuca behind a nearby neighborhood in Sierra Vista, Ariz., on Friday.
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Jun 19 2011 10:46AM
Matt York /
Associated Press
The Monument fire burns Saturday in Sierra Vista, Ariz. The fire continues to threaten Sierra Vista but firefighters got a handle on its most worrisome flare-up in Miller Canyon. The human-caused fire, which started last Sunday, is now at more than 19,000 acres.
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Jun 19 2011 10:19AM
Mike Taylor /
Associated Press
This Landsat 5 satellite image provided by NASA shows the Wallow North Fire in east central Arizona taken on Wednesday June 15, 2011 at 3:54 p.m. EDT. This false-colored image shows the burn scar in red, the fire ongoing in really bright red, vegetation is green, smoke is blue and bare ground is tan. (AP Photo/NASA/USGS - Mike Taylor)
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Jun 19 2011 10:33AM
Patrick T Fallon /
Houston Chronicle
Volunteers from Klein Fire Department set up a line to protect homes on Lincolns Meadow Drive while helicopters douse the wildfire Friday in Spring.
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Jun 19 2011 10:34AM
Cody Duty /
Houston Chronicle
Sandra and James Munselle stand outside as a helicopter flies over homes in the Breckenridge Forest subdivision to fight the blaze Friday in Spring.
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Jun 19 2011 10:34AM
Patrick T Fallon /
Houston Chronicle
A firefighter from the Texas Forest Service watches a helicopters douse the wildfire Friday in Spring.
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Jun 19 2011 10:35AM
Patrick T Fallon /
Houston Chronicle
Helicopters douse the Spring wildfire on Friday.
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Jun 19 2011 2:33PM
Cody Duty /
Houston Chronicle
A log burns after firefighters put out a fire that started around the Breckenridge Forest subdivision Friday in Spring.
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Jun 19 2011 2:33PM
Beatrice Richardson /
Associated Press
Helicopters leave after replenishing their water supply as they battle the Monument Fire in Hereford, Ariz., on Thursday, June 16.
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Jun 19 2011 2:33PM
Mark Levy /
Associated Press
Eli Gray and a 20-member team from Chico, Calif., search for hot spots along Hereford Road Saturday, June 18, in Hereford, Ariz.
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Jun 19 2011 2:31PM
Jill Torrance /
Associated Press
David Alarie, left, Mark Velez and Alan Bondurant load a 1926 Model T onto a trailer at the Ramsey Canyon RV Park after getting evacuation orders Fridday afternoon in Sierra Vista, Ariz.
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Jun 19 2011 2:32PM
Roberto Rodriguez /
Associated Press
Amarillo firefighters work on extinguishing hot spots among the rubble that remains of a home in the Woodlands neighborhood on May 30. Two wildfires destroyed at least 12 homes on the outskirts of the Texas Panhandle city.
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