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Wildfires

• Fire survivors get a new look
  Gloria Valerio wept at the sight of long hair straightened into stylish cuts, of shabby bangs trimmed neat and the sound of a blow-dryer's hum.
• Caring missing from store inventory
  Janis Hood knows a thing or two about customer relations. As a little girl, she grew up behind the counter of her grandfather's taco stand on Moorpark Avenue in North Hollywood.
• Sayre Fire victims may share emergency funds
  SYLMAR - Some victims of the Sayre Fire may get a small piece of a proposed $100,000 emergency fund, City Councilman Richard Alarc n told residents of the burn area at a meeting Tuesday.
• Insurance companies say they can handle flood of claims from Southland's fires
  Experts say insurance companies are sufficiently well capitalized to handle the flood of claims that will arise from the Southland's latest wildfires.
• Mobile home park residents in state of limbo
  SYLMAR - Friday night, Mary and Daniel Rios welcomed family members to their residence at Sylmar's Oakridge Mobile Home Park.
• Sayre Fire about 85% contained
  SYLMAR - Firefighters today moved closer to containing the wind-driven brush fire that has scorched 11,245 acres, including a Sylmar mobile home park where hundreds of residents lost their homes.
• Assistance center for Sayre Fire victims to open in Sylmar
  SYLMAR -- A local assistance center will open Thursday at the Sylmar Recreation Center to provide disaster relief services to victims of the Sayre Fire.
• Sayre blaze nears full containment
  SYLMAR - Firefighters on Tuesday drew an increasingly tighter noose around the Sayre Fire, one of the most destructive blazes in city history, saying they had surrounded roughly 85 percent of the flames.
• Officials blame Montecito wildfire on bonfire
  LOS ANGELES - A bonfire built by a group of young adults is what sparked a massive wildfire in Santa Barbara.
• Schwarzenegger declares emergency for Tea Fire
  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proclaimed a state of emergency in Santa Barbara County, where a wildfire has destroyed more than 100 homes.
• Grateful community rewards crews who saved homes
  In the aftermath of every major fire, there are small stories of kindness that fall through the cracks.