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NEWS RELEASE 5/31/13: Four Houston Firefighters Die in 5-Alarm Blaze
2013-07-10 00:16:22| PortlandOnline
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Arizona wildfire: Obama lauds elite crew of 'heroes' who died tackling blaze
2013-07-01 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Barack Obama sent condolences to the families of 19 firefighters killed in an Arizona wildfire, praising the elite crew as "heroes". It was the deadliest loss of wild land firefighters since 1933. The firefighters were members of an elite "hotshot" crew, deployed near the small town of Yarnell, Arizona to fight a lightning fire, fuelled by hot temperatures and high winds. Hotshot teams undergo special training to hike deep into the wilderness during a wildfire, carrying chainsaws to clear brush...
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Arizona wildfire threatens hundreds of homes, California blaze wanes
2013-06-20 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An Arizona wildfire whipped up by strong winds threatened hundreds of homes on Wednesday, even as firefighters were gaining an edge on a California blaze raging near a pristine wilderness, authorities said. More than 500 firefighters were battling the Doce Fire, which has burned through 7,000 acres of chaparral, pine and juniper since Tuesday morning near Prescott, about 100 miles north of Phoenix, the Prescott National Forest said in a statement. Fanned by gusting winds, the fire has led to...
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Colorado Wildfire Expected to be Contained by Thursday, $5.5 million Spent Battling Blaze
2013-06-18 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The most destructive fire in Colorado state history is being reined in and some evacuation orders are being rescinded, with officials reporting the Black Forest fire 75 percent contained after one week of burning in and around the city of Colorado Springs. Hundreds of evacuees were able to return home Tuesday morning, local ABC station 7 News reported. But hundreds more were not so fortunate. According to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, 502 homes were declared a total loss and an additional...
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Deadly Colorado blaze subsides with help from rain
2013-06-15 02:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rain and calmer winds helped firefighters tame a deadly wildfire ranked as Colorado's most destructive on record as authorities reported making significant headway on Friday in curtailing a blaze that has destroyed nearly 420 homes outside Colorado Springs. The fire has charred roughly 24 square miles of rolling, wooded terrain northeast of Colorado's second-largest city since it started on Tuesday, killing two people and forcing some 38,000 to flee their homes. A firefighting force estimated...
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