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Flames toast Alaskan tundra
McClatchy-TribuneThe Arctic is burning. It long has, of course, but now with greater regularity and more ferocity. Splinters of lightning crackle on the tundra, setting ablaze runaway fires that toast the landscape black. Around this remote pond deep in the Arctic...Tags: Forests, Natural Resources, Global Warming, Conservation, Wildlife
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WORLD & NATION UPDATE: AT HOME
Cooler weather has allowed fire crews to corral most of the wildfires across California, but a handful of stubborn, hard-to-reach mountain blazes yesterday were still keeping residents from their homes. Firefighters were trying to stop a fire in the...Tags: Voting, Prostitution, Forestry and Timber, Fires, Referenda
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Wildfire Near Mount Adams 50% Contained
Crews have made progress on a large wildfire in Western Washington.
The Cold Springs fire that has been burning on the south side of Mount Adams since July 12 is listed at 7,933 acres and 50 percent contained.
Geree Mills of the Northwest Interagency...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Fires, Weather Reports
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Brushfire Flares Up in Tujunga
KTLA TVTUJUNGA -- A brush fire that scorched nearly 15 acreas near La Tuna Canyon Park Friday night flared-up early this morning, a city fire official said. Fire helicopters were dropping water on the east flank of the fire at 8:20 a.m., where the flare-up...Tags: Fires, Tujunga
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Firefighters Battle Blaze Above Pasadena
PASADENA -- A brush fire has broken out near the Hastings Ranch area in Pasadena. Pasadena Fire Department spokeswoman Lisa Derderian says the fire was reported around 3:20 p.m. Friday. Derderian says about two acres have burned so far. She says...Tags: Fires
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President Bush Tours Fire Devastation
President Bush offered federal help and encouragement to some of the 25,000 firefighters working under a blazing sun to contain wildfires that make up the single largest fire event ever recorded in California.
"I always come to make sure the federal...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Emergency Planning, Forestry and Timber, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bob May
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Fire-related I-84 wreck kills Mich. man
A semi-trailer truck wreck on Interstate 84 blamed on a Columbia Gorge wildfire resulted in the death of a Michigan man and the attempted looting of a spilled load of Nike shoes. Oregon State Police identified the victim as 47-year-old Kerry Ray Boatman...Tags: Vehicles, Emergency Incidents, Fires, Nike Incorporated
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WORLD & NATION: AT HOME
The United States can begin trying Osama bin Laden's former driver next week at Guantánamo Bay, a federal judge ruled yesterday, rejecting the defendant's plea to halt the historic first trial in the military system set up following the Sept. 11 terror...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Judges, Trials, George Bush
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Number of Wildfires Shrink to 38
Associated PressREDDING -- After weeks of battling the single largest fire event ever recorded in California, firefighters have whittled the state's more than 2,000 blazes down to 38. President Bush is offering federal help and encouragement to the 25,000 firefighters...Tags: Santa Barbara County, Ventura (Ventura, California), Forestry and Timber, Meteorological Disasters, Avalanches and Landslides
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Cooler Temps And Higher Humidity Help Fire Crews
The Associated PressCooler temperatures and higher humidity have helped keep a forest fire near Mount Adams from actively growing over the past few days, but fire officials expect hotter temperatures, lower humidity and higher winds on Friday. Fire crews from throughout the...Tags: Vehicles, Forestry and Timber, Fires
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