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Wildfire: Some Western cities ban fireworks on Fourth; blazes grow throughout region
• DENVER (AP) - Parts of Colorado celebrated Independence Day sans fireworks with some communities banning the holiday displays to guard against the further spread of wildfire across the region. • Though rain cooled Colorado's blazes Wednesday, more than a dozen wildfires elsewhere in the West chewed through bone-dry timber and brush. • Wildfires in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado sent haze and smoke across Colorado's Front Range, prompting air-quality health advisories as firefighters warned of growing fires in sparsely populated areas. • In Colorado Springs, there was good news in the fight against the most destructive fire in state history. • Light rains that fell early Wednesday helped calm the Waldo Canyon Fire, which has scorched 28 square miles, killed two and destroyed almost 350 homes. Firefighters predicted full containment of the fire by Sunday, with more rain, cooler temperatures and higher humidity predicted through the weekend. • ___
Romney says Obama health care mandate is a tax, maintains that Mass. mandate is not a tax
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