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Washington state wildfire grows, more evacuations urged
2014-07-17 21:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A fast-moving Washington state wildfire raging in the Cascade Mountains grew in size to threaten roughly 1,700 dwellings on Thursday near the Bavarian-style village of Leavenworth, officials said. The Chiwaukum Creek fire continued to rage out of control through timber in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest and on private land, two days after it was triggered by a lightning strike, according to the Chelan County Emergency Management office. Evacuation orders were issued for about 900 homes...
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Fire At Ohio Fracking Well Forced Evacuations And Likely Contributed Fish Kill
2014-07-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: An explosive fire at an Ohio fracking well was likely the cause of a chemical leak into a stream that contributed to the death of fish as far as five miles away from the the fire`s site, Ohio officials said Monday. Over the weekend, a mechanical malfunction sparked a fire on the well pad of a fracking operation in Monroe County, Ohio, a blaze that caused explosions and forced evacuations of people who lived within a mile of the well. The people were evacuated as a precaution "because of the chemicals...
Floods in Alaska national park prompt emergency evacuations
2014-06-28 02:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than 100 tourists and workers have been airlifted out of a private lodge in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve after floods washed out portions of a road and left them stranded, a National Park Service spokeswoman said on Friday. The group was evacuated late on Thursday by four fixed-wing airplanes and two helicopters after rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday morning caused two nearby shallow creeks to swell, said park spokeswoman Kris Fister. The creeks turned into a "confluence...
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California wildfire prompts hundreds of home evacuations
2014-06-15 18:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Hundreds of firefighters on Sunday were battling a wildfire in southern California that prompted the evacuation of about 500 homes, local officials said. The Shirley Fire was only five percent contained and burning over 800 acres, sending smoke plumes across the Kern River Valley, about 130 miles (209 km) north east of Los Angeles. Mandatory evacuations of about 500 homes in proximity to the blaze northeast of the city of Bakersfield started Saturday, according to a statement from the Kern County...
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US moves Navy ship into Mediterranean Sea for evacuations from Libya
2014-05-28 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The US has deployed the Navys Wasp-class amphibious assault vessel USS Bataan, with 1000 marines, into the Mediterranean Sea, in the wake of worsening unrest in Libya.