1.   At this point, the only way to ensure protection from huge wildfires at most Bay Area parks is to make certain that there are no fires at all.

2.   A huge West Marin wildfire tripled in size Wednesday, and many residents of the town of Inverness on Tomales Bay were forced to flee to safety.

3.   Brian Horner looked out his window about a week ago and saw smoke billowing up from a huge wildfire.

4.   But Bob Dyson, a Forest Service spokesman, said firefighters were following a policy of not having their lives put at risk in front of a huge wildfire.

5.   To the east, in Australia, however, the drought continues and lightning has ignited huge wildfires that are raging across the outback.

6.   Firefighters battling a huge wildfire last month thought it was a stroke of luck when the blaze headed into a wetlands.

7.   Heavy rains Thursday helped firefighters gain control of a huge wildfire burning swampland in southwest Florida and suppressed blazes elsewhere in the state.

8.   Huge wildfires continue to burn in the Russian Far East, Siberia and northwestern Russia, destroying huge swathes of forest land, an emergency official said Thursday.

9.   In May, a huge wildfire threatened the lab where two computer hard drives with information used to disable nuclear weapons went missing before the site was evacuated.

10.   They only enjoyed one weekend there before a huge wildfire reduced it to ash.