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S C Fires Contained09028 US A Today
- The wildfire that burned nearly
30 square miles near the South Carolina coast is now 100% contained.
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Fire Plan10 Yr Bush
- The Bush administration and Western
governors have signed off on a 10-year plan that would help reduce the wildfires
that plague the Western United States.
- [A King Canute
apporach--RSB]
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Fires May Need Military
- The dry, windy dog days of August
have pushed the Western wildfire season into full swing
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CNN |
Extreme Behavior Fires Colorado
- Strong wind, heat and low humidity worked
against crews battling wildfires
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NYT |
Fires Twice As Big
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wind-whipped wildfire exploded to nearly 12,000 acres as it leaped from treetop
to treetop
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A P History Wildfires020731 C N N
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StarTrib |
Russian Fires
- Moscow wrapped in smoke from wildfires
- Bigger fires continued burning in Siberia, where nearly 3 million
acres of forest have been destroyed.
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CNN |
World Fires Nasa
- The new maps document the extreme fire season experienced this year
in the United States. Though the large wildfires in the Western United States
have garnered most of the media's attention, the new NASA maps also highlight
the smaller but far more frequent blazes across the Southeast.
- The maps also show dramatic fires across Siberia, Australia, Brazil
and Africa. Many of the fires burning in those areas swept across savannah
and grassland, with total acreage burned in a single fire far exceeding that
of any U.S. wildfire.
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Bog Fires Russia
- A drought and drained peat bogs are providing conditions
for blazes. Flawed land management gets the blame for extensive underground
burning.
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Wildfire plans are deadlocked
- Senators disagree on reducing threat in national forests
- Neither strategy has enough votes to overcome procedural delays,
or filibusters, from the opposition.
- The GOP proposal mirrors much of President's Bush's proposal to expedite
forest-thinning efforts by easing regulations and limiting lawsuits by
environmentalists and private citizens on 10 million acres of national
forests
- But with both plans not having the 60 votes needed to avoid procedural
delays by opponents
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Firesmongolia020925 Nasa
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Indonesian fires have exacerbated global warming: research
- Indonesian fires have exacerbated global warming: research
- more than 2.5 million
tonnes of carbon entered the atmosphere, contributing to the biggest annual
increase in carbon emissions since records began.
- most of it came from smouldering
deposits of peat.
- The forest fires of 1997 and 1998 were fuelled in part by a strong
El Nino, creating ideal conditions for any spark to become a blaze
- Underground are vast deposits of peat which smouldered for many
months.
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Hot Winds Crops Dead021114 Au B C
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USAToday |
Most Destructive Fire Season
- Since January, fires have burned more than 9.1 million acres.
That is the worst destruction since the Boise center began keeping accurate
records in 1960 and far exceeds the yearly average of 5.2 million acres over
the past decade.
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Monster Ga Wildfire
- A fast-moving "monster" fire in southeastern
Georgia has blackened 10,000 acres of forest
- The fire started Monday when a tree fell on a power line
- "It was jumping county roads and highways
- The large fire is one of five burning in southeastern Georgia
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USAToday |
Ga Wildfire Continues To Burn
- burned more than 70 square miles of forest
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USAToday |
Agency Predicts More Fires In West And So East
- The West and Southeast face an increased wildfire
risk this year because of ongoing drought and an expected hotter than average
summer
- In 2006, a record 9.8 million acres burned, 2,300 buildings were
destroyed, fire suppression costs totaled $1.4 billion, and 24 wildland
firefighters died.
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Raging Wildfires Force Evacuations Florida
- The blaze was first spotted Tuesday afternoon about four miles west
of Interstate 95
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Catalina Island Wild Fire
- A wind-driven wildfire threatened Santa
Catalina Island's main city
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Fla Fire Crews Near Breaking Point
- 236 fires were burning more than 87,000 acres
around the state
- Georgia is battling two wildfires that have each burned more than
100,000 acres
- The fires even affected counties that weren't ablaze, as heavy smoke
drifted over most counties in the state.
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Fla Geog Battles Wild Fires
- The two drought-parched states have been battling blazes for weeks,
with nearly 300 square miles charred in all.
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Ca Mn So East Fire Threat Eases
- Fire threat eases in Calif. as blazes continue in Minn.,
Southeast
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Co-Wildfire Destroys3 Homes Colorado
- A wind-swept wildfire destroyed three homes
and damaged a fourth in this small western Colorado town, but no injuries
were reported
- Harvey said close-in vegetation helped the flames jump from house
to house.
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Alaska Blaze Destroys Dozens Of Homes
- An enormous forest fire started by tool sparks
has destroyed dozens of homes and cabin
- The blaze had blackened about 78 square miles, or 50,000
acres
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Crews Try To Contain Wildfires Just West Of Reno
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150-acre wildfire that had burned within 200 yards of some upscale homes
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Ca Wild Fire Destroysover200 Homes
- A raging wildfire near Lake Tahoe on Monday
forced hundreds of residents to flee towering flames that destroyed more
than 200 buildings, turned the sky orange and fouled the lake's famously
clear waters with falling ash.
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least three members of the local fire department were believed to have lost
their homes.
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Wild Fires Flare Across The West
- one of more than a dozen
blazes that charred a combined 55 square miles in northern Nevada.
- The blaze was among a series that dotted the West on Saturday as
a heat wave made parched terrain even drier, forcing authorities to evacuate
homes and close highways and wilderness areas.
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Canary Island Fire11000 Evacuate
- About 6,000 people were evacuated from homes on Tenerife, where fires
have burned 11,000 acres of forest on the western part of the island
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So Africa Wild Fire Kills18people
- Wildfires sweeping across
parts of eastern South Africa have killed at least 18 people and damaged
thousands of acres of land,
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USAToday |
Foreign Fire Fighters Battle Greek Fires
- The country's worst fires in living memory have killed at least 64
people since they began five days ago, ravaging olive groves, forest and
orchards and incinerating homes, wild animals and livestock.
- Greece also braced for the economic impact of the wildfires, with
the government budgeting nearly a third of a billion euros for immediate
relief. The cost of the damage was expected to be much higher
- During those three days, more land was burned in Greece than during
all of 2000, which had been the worst year recorded by the EU's fire information
service
- A prosecutor on Monday ordered an investigation
into whether arson could come under Greece's anti-terrorism and organized
crime laws.
- On Saturday, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said it could not be
coincidence that so many fires broke out simultaneously in so many
areas.
- In the past, unscrupulous land developers have been blamed for setting
fires in an attempt to circumvent laws that do not allow construction on
forest land
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USAToday |
Leaders Face Criticism Greek Fires
- "Burn him," she said. "Or
give him to people whose homes have been burned, and they can decide what
to do with him."[RSB: Taking law into own hands.]
- Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis' government offered no evidence
to back its claim of an orchestrated arson campaign by terrorists
what Public Order Minister Vyron Polydoras termed an "asymmetrical
threat."
- Nikos Charalambidis, director
of Greenpeace Greece, estimated that about 500,000 acres about 1%
of the country or about half the size of Rhode Island have burned
since the fires broke out.
- Yiannis Ragoussis, spokesman for the Socialists, accused the government
of "trying to create a Sept. 11-type of climate" to avoid defeat next
month.
- In an editorial, the daily newspaper Eleftherotypia accused Greek
officials of fabricating the terror threat.
- The government planned to give firefighters bonuses of $3,416.
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USAToday |
Fuel Western Fires Invasive Plants
- A winter annual, it matures
weeks before native plants. Farmers and ranchers named it because it "cheats"
crops out of water and soil nutrients.
- Unchecked, cheatgrass carpets the sagebrush plain with hundreds of
thousands of plants per acre. By early summer, the plants dry into explosive
kindling, easily lit by lightning, a dropped match or a hot muffler. Cheatgrass
fires burn hotter, faster and more intense than range fires of native perennials
that need years of reseeding and care to return. By then, cheatgrass has
taken over and set the stage for new fires within three to five years.
- The two studies
by federal Agriculture Department scientists and researchers at Brown University
note that cheatgrass thrives on carbon dioxide, the most abundant of the
greenhouse gases that scientists say are causing climate change.
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USAToday |
North Slope Tundra Still Burning
- Alaska's largest wildfire of the year
is now also the biggest tundra fire ever recorded on the North Slope
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USAToday |
Burn More Aggressively Wildfires Risks Gnaw At Fire Fighters
- Fueled by drought and development, wildfires
in the West are getting bigger and more aggressive, creating conditions so
dangerous that fire bosses are increasingly reluctant to risk lives saving
houses particularly if the owners have done nothing to protect their
property.
- Firefighter deaths over the past decade are averaging around 18 a
year, up from 6.6 during the 1930s, according to Forest Service statistics.
Last year's death toll was two dozen, double the number in 2005.
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Oakland Tribune: U.S. needs to keep fire tanker funding
... Source: OaklandTribune
- U.S. needs to keep fire tanker funding
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USAToday |
Texas bracing for likelihood of winter wildfires
- This year's heavy downpours sprouted a thicker growth of trees, bushes
and grasses across the state all of which could quickly turn into
a plentiful supply of wildfire fuel.
- The wildfire threat worsens after the season's first grass-killing
frost
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At Least500 People Flee25000 Acre Fire In Texas
- A wildfire blamed on a fallen power
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Wild Fires Likely To Spread Due To Global Warming
- Wild fires are likely to be bigger, more frequent
and burn for longer as the world gets hotter, in turn speeding up global
warming to create a dangerous vicious circle
- fires will increase and could spread to previously fire-free parts
of the world as the climate changes.
- "An increase in fire may be the greatest early impact of climate
change on forests,"
- "Our forests are more likely to become a victim of climate change
than a savior,"
- global warming will cause more fires which as they burn
contribute to global warming by producing greenhouse gases.
- Scientists already estimate that Canadian wild fires will double
in area by the end of the century and that the fire season will be
longer.
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Unprecedented Lightning Sparks800 Plus Wildfires In Calif
- Firefighters from neighboring states arrived
to help Monday after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than
800 wildfires, from Big Sur to wine country to Humboldt County.
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Russian Fires080630 N A S Agov
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USAToday |
Doctors Visits Spike From Wild Fires
- California's raging wildfires have created
a smoky haze so stifling that doctors in the state's landlocked farm country
say their waiting rooms have been crowding with patients struggling to breathe
amid the soot-laden air.
- "Air quality is the wrong word. There is no quality,"
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Views Fire Devastation In North Calif-Bush
- More than 2,000 fires in California have consumed more than 1,300
square miles since June 21 -- making it the largest combined fire event in
state history
- After the wildfires visit, Bush attended a GOP fundraiser in Napa,
Calif.
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USAToday |
More Fires From Lightning Storms
- The blaze, which was started July
25 by a target shooter,
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USAToday |
Major Colorado Wild Fire Only Matter Of Time-Lawmakers
- Lawmakers warned Tuesday that it's only a question
of time before a major wildfire strikes Colorado's beetle-ravaged trees on
the Western Slope
- ess than half the communities in the
state are prepared for a major wildfire after pine beetles destroyed 1.5
million acres of lodgepole pine.
- Foresters expect up to 90%
of the lodgepole pine forest to die over the next five years.
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- Powerful gusts stoked three major wildfires in Southern
California early Tuesday that have charred nearly 12,000 acres, destroyed
dozens of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate neighborhoods
in suburban Los Angeles and northern San Diego County.
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Calif. Wildfires Continue to Rage
- Wind-whipped wildfires continued to burn
through Southern California on Tuesday
- It cost California almost half a million dollars to fight fires last
year that burned nearly a million acres.
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Tens of Thousands Flee Homes as Fires Rage in Southern California
- Hundreds of houses were destroyed by the blaze, including about 500
in a mobile home park.
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USAToday |
Dry Conditions Could Fuel Fires In South
- Wildfires have burned more than 2.3 million acres
across the South so far this year, and the region has accounted for more
than half the fires reported across the country
- The Southern fire season can begin as early as January, with its
peak typically in March and April
- The Evans Road Fire burned more than 62 square miles
in eastern North Ca
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Deadliest Ever Aussie Wildfires Kill130-
- The deadliest wildfires in Australia's
history burned people in their homes and cars and wiped out entire
towns
- Blazes have been burning for weeks in the southeastern state of Victoria
but turned deadly Saturday when searing temperatures and wind blasts created
a firestorm that swept across a swath of the region
- "It does appear that people have been taken by surprise by how fast
this fire has come,"
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Why Global Warming May Be Fueling Australia's Fires -
- The raging infernos that have left more than 160 people dead in southern
Australia burned with such speed that they resembled less a wildfire than
a massive aerial bombing.
- Many victims caught in the blazes
had no time to escape; their houses disintegrated around them, and they burned
to death
- warned that fires in Australia were "virtually certain
to increase in intensity and frequency"
- Destructive wildfires are already common in Australia, and it's not
hard to see why climate change would increase their frequency.
- The driest inhabited continent on the planet, Australia has warmed
0.9°C since 1950, and climate models predict the country could warm
further by 2070, up to 5°C over 1990 temperatures, if global greenhouse-gas
emissions go unchecked.
- Beyond a simple rise in average
temperatures, climate change will also lead to an increase in Australia's
extreme heat waves and droughts.
- Climate change will continue to be a threat multiplier
for forest fires.
- The
wildfires in southern Australia are already the worst in the nation's history
but they surely won't be the last.
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California declares emergency as wildfires spread
- "As the brush ignites, it's like a fireworks explosion, and the sparks
rain down where the ranch houses are,"
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