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Number of Wildfires Shrink to 38
July 18, 2008, 9:50 AM PDT 
REDDING -- After weeks of battling the single
largest fire event ever recorded in California, firefighters have
whittled the state's more than 2,000 blazes down to 38.President Bush is offering federal help and encouragement to the 25,000 firefighters who have been working to contain the wildfires since a lightning storm last month. The president surveyed the damage yesterday. A U.S. Forest Service spokesman says crews are "grinding away on these fires," and that progress is being made. Authorities have lifted mandatory evacuations in most of the Los Padres National Forest around Big Sur. The fire is 65 percent contained after eating through about 200 square miles. So far, FEMA is doling out more than 154 million dollars to the Golden State. Copyright © 2008, KTLA Video  More Coverage  Video  Photo gallery  On the Web More Coverage    
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