There are three fires still out of control outside of Coimbra and then another eight fires or so in the central area.

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The city has few out-of-control fires, according to David Lasker, a freelance photographer who makes a living shooting pictures of Chicago blazes.

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But for the last three years, fire crews have been left struggling to cope with fires that have spun rapidly out of control.

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Current measures to control inflation are too mild and thus may actually fan the fires of inflation.

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But the American Forest Resource Council, a lobbying group that represents members of the timber industry, believes that forests should be managed to control fires and also to store carbon.

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High wind gusts of between 30 and 42 miles per hours Monday made the fires particularly hard to control, New Jersey and New York officials said.

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