According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Buckweed Fire burned 38, 526 acres.
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The number of people hurt in the fires increased Friday to 85, including at least 61 firefighters, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
In California, a pair of fires north of San Francisco in Lake County burned 7, 000 acres and were 30% contained Tuesday, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Instead, they believed it was started by a small, "undetermined roadside ignition of grass and debris" on the edge of U.S. 101 near Thousand Oaks, said Tom Piranio, a spokesman with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
While the fires still threatened some 25, 000 homes, the burn rate in the region -- a measure made up of factors like wind speed, humidity and available fuel -- was significantly lower Thursday, a spokeswoman at the California Department of Forestry and Protection said.
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Australia's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry said in a statement it was "pleased with the level of co-operation" from the Egyptian authorities.
Cooperating institutions: Environmental Management Authority, Meteorological Office, Institute of Marine Affairs, Forestry Department, Water and Sewerage Authority, Ministry of Works, Town and Country Planning Department, various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and public communities.
Only later, much later, as environmentalists stirred the controversy to a boiling point, did Plodprasop Suraswadi, chief of the forestry department, answer the charges.
Cooperating institutions: Environmental Management Authority, Meteorological Office, Institute of Marine Affairs, Forestry Department, Water and Sewerage Authority.
The investigators of the government's forestry department, Global Witness complained, were ignoring all the abuses it reported.
An additional 480 homes are threatened, and a firefighter was injured while battling the flames, said Julie Hutchinson of the state's forestry and fire department.
Somsak, the administration chief of the Krabi province, started legal action against Fox, the forestry department and Thailand's agriculture minister over the decision to give Fox a licence to film there.
The government launched a consultation on plans to sell off or lease England's 258, 000-hectare public forest estate - currently managed by the Forestry Commission on behalf of the environment, food and rural affairs department - to the private sector or to not for profit organisations, last week.
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