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News Pix: Giants Win the World Series, Fans Celebrate, and A Parade

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People pack into Civic Center for the Giants victory rally. (Nick Morris/KQED)

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Giants Manager Bruce Bochy celebrates winning the World Series with players after a tense Game 7. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

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Madison Bumgarner and Buster Posey embrace after the final out that clinched the World Series win for the Giants. This makes them only the fifth team ever to win three World Series in five years. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)

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The streets of San Francisco were alive with celebrations Wednesday night, Oct 29, 2014, after the Giants clinched the World Series with a dramatic 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals. And then the revelry turns into something different: drunken crowds, street fires, dangerous fireworks, escalating vandalism and violence. Here people gather around a fire on Mission Street. (James Tensuan/KQED)

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Fans celebrate on the corner of 16th and Valencia St. in San Francisco after the Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals in Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday. The celebrations escalated into violence over the course of the night, resulting in several injuries, 40 arrests and damage to both city and private property. (James Tensuan/KQED)

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Rain couldn't dampen the spirits of the Giants faithful who came out to celebrate their team on a wet Halloween afternoon. Aileen Castillo and her brother, Alejandro, came down from Sacramento for the Giants victory celebration. "We're ready for the rain -- we've got umbrellas, ponchos, raincoats -- we're fine," Castillo said. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)

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