Dragons, fire-spewing mountains, dark forests, strange masked figures.

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More than 950 fire and law enforcement personnel contained 20% of the blaze near upscale homes and through the Santa Monica Mountains, the county fire department said.

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In 2009, a fire in a packed nightclub in the Ural Mountains city of Perm killed more than 100 people, leading to widespread checks of safety-rules by fire inspection teams around Russia.

WSJ: Russian Hospital Fire Kills 38

The developments came three days after a shootout, standoff and fire at a cabin in the mountains east of Los Angeles.

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More than 950 fire and law enforcement personnel were able to contain only 20% of the blaze roaring near upscale houses and through the Santa Monica Mountains, the county fire department said.

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Continuing cool, moist air significantly reduced fire activity and helped firefighters build containment lines around the 44-square-mile fire at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains.

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In the San Bernardino Mountains, near Banning, crews tackled a fire through the night.

BBC: California wildfire shuts famous highway

In conferring the medal, President Barack Obama described the conditions faced by Romesha and 52 other soldiers when they came under attack from mortar, rocket-propelled grenade, machine-gun and sniper fire on October 3, 2009, at Combat Outpost Keating in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.

CNN: Medal of Honor recipient conflicted by joy, sadness

The poster landscape for the salvage logging debate can be found in the mountains of Oregon, mountains blackened in 2002 by the 500, 000-acre Biscuit fire, which was the biggest in the history of the state.

NPR: Study: Salvage Logging Boosts Forest-Fire Threat

"Lion Face Boy" is the first single from Seabear's sophomore album, We Built a Fire, and it's a perfect display of the band's knack for constructing mountains of instrumentation on a simple idea.

NPR: Seabear: Iceland's Orderly Orchestra

Years of backpacking in various parts of the United States have taught me that while a box of organic macaroni and cheese is easy to prepare after a long day of lugging a heavy pack up and down mountains, it's not nearly as satisfying as quinoa chowder or fresh vegetables roasted over a fire.

NPR: Forget The Granola: Camp Cooking Goes Gourmet