The so-called Springs Fire was nearly out of control in Ventura County on Friday evening.

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Forest Service spokeswoman Barb Timock says some people were surprised the Mason fire ever got out of control.

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However, rain doused the killer Waldo Canyon Fire that blazed out of control through parts of Colorado for many weeks this summer.

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The so-called Springs Fire was nearly out of control in Ventura County.

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In western Victoria, a fire in Kentbruck is burning out of control.

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The time it takes from someone calling to report an emergency to the moment when firefighting begins contains roughly a half-dozen segments, each of which may be measured separately and some of which are out of the fire department's control.

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The county's fire authority said the car appeared to have gone out of control in the wintry conditions and hit the central reservation.

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Fresh off unveiling its BlackBerry 10 operating system and two new phones, the company tried to keep its badly needed momentum going with a 30-second spot in which a guy uses the new BlackBerry Z10 to set himself on fire, grow elephant legs and magically turn an out-of-control big rig into an exploding pile of rubber duckies.

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So at this point they just seem to be burning, if not out of control at this point, it looks like a fire maybe sort of 10 feet wide at this point on the second floor.

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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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She was the one who shook him out of his comfort zone and got him to to fire his stockbroker and take control of his nest-egg.

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