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• Blue Mountains residents slowly rebuilding lives one year on from fires

  14 Oct 2014: They lost their homes in one of the worst New South Wales bushfires in decades, but battling with planning rules, insurance companies, gawpers and looters has taken a heavy toll – and there’s every likelihood the fires will return

• Yosemite wildfire spreads after air tanker crash and area evacuations

  9 Oct 2014: Fires destroy a home near Sacramento and close part of key highway while firefighters struggle to contain hill blazes

• Plane fighting California wildfires crashes in Yosemite

  8 Oct 2014: Pilot killed in crash near Dog Rock fire, with California wildfire season on track to be most destructive on record

• Gallipoli bushfire threat: historian says peninsula is at risk of damaging blaze

  6 Oct 2014: Military historian Peter Stanley says a grazing ban and lack of hazard reduction risk leaving Gallipoli ‘unrecognisable’

• Landowners launch class action over bushfire north of Melbourne

  2 Oct 2014: Tree branch that was clearly a hazard fell on to high-voltage conductors before Mickleham-Kilmore fire, lawyers say

• Tasmanian fires being fuelled by damaging winds

  28 Sep 2014: Five blazes still burning in state’s south after fires got close to houses and the Tassal fish processing plant in Dover

• California King fire toll exceeds $50m as firefighters welcome wet weather

  25 Sep 2014: Wet weather helps more than 8,000 firefighters contain blaze, which is one of 5,000 to have erupted in state this year

• California King fire destroys 12 homes as states issue smoke warning

  24 Sep 2014: Crews of more than 7,000 firefighters extend their lines around huge fire in northern California as smoke shrouds Nevada

• King wildfire: firefighters rush to contain blaze before dry weather arrives

  23 Sep 2014: Fears dry heat and wind could undo progress of containing wildfire that threatens thousands of homes in north of state

• Rain helps firefighters from across US contain California King fire

  22 Sep 2014: Wildfire about 60 miles east of Sacramento forced thousands to evacuate, destroyed 137 square miles and destroyed dozens of buildings

• California King Fire expands as authorities await thunderstorms

  21 Sep 2014: Storms could help or harm fight against 128-mile fire as man is charged with arson and 3,000 stay away from homes

• California wildfire: teams assess damage as blaze grows

  20 Sep 2014: Fire spokesman Mike McMillian said Saturday that officials have confirmed that several structures have been lost due to the King Fire

• The 20 photographs of the week

  Gallery (20 pictures), 20 Sep 2014:

  The referendum in Scotland, the Californian fires, the ongoing crisis in northern Iraq and Syria – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week

• California's burning up: firefighters rush to the scene as major wildfires scorch the state

  19 Sep 2014: Eldorado national forest erupts in flames, prompting governor Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency – with the prospect of more fires to come during California’s hot, dry autumn

• Wildfires are bigger than flames. Tell us how they've changed your life

  19 Sep 2014: You tell us: Because the burning season in the American west is about so much more than pictures on cable news. We want to share your story of survival with the world

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