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Experts See a Hotter, Drier West, With More Huge Fires
2013-07-02 03:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: One of the deadliest wildfires in a generation vastly expanded Monday to cover more than 8,000 acres, sweeping up sharp slopes through dry scrub and gnarled pion pines a day after fickle winds and flames killed 19 firefighters. The gusty monsoon winds where the Colorado plateau begins to drop off into the Sonoran Desert continued to bedevil about 400 firefighters who were defending 500 homes and 200 businesses in the old gold mining villages of Yarnell and Peeples Valley. Scientists said those...
BANNING: Man arrested on suspicion of setting fires
2013-07-02 02:43:13| Chemicals - Topix.net
A Banning man has been arrested on suspicion of setting numerous fires in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, including at least one in which a person was injured.
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PG&E Focuses on Public Safety & Prevention of Tree-Caused Power Outages and Fires
2013-06-28 20:01:00| Transmission & Distribution World
By Eric Woodyard, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Until 2006, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s (PG&E’s) vegetation management program focused primarily on routine maintenance work to simply maintain compliance with California mandates pertaining to vegetation line clearance. Such routine vegetation work includes tree pruning and removal along distribution and transmission lines, as well as vegetation clearing around subject poles. read more
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Aereo fires up expansion plan with 19 cities in one fell swoop
2013-06-26 18:47:55| CNET News.com
Lawsuits aren't slowing down the online over-the-air broadcast service, planning to launch in as many as 19 new metro areas by August. [Read more]
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Indonesia: Wind, not big increase in forest fires, driving haze in Singapore
2013-06-26 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Wind patterns, rather than a sharp increase in fires, is to blame for the record setting air pollution affecting Singapore and Malaysia, finds new analysis by the World Resources Institute (WRI). WRI looked at hotspot data from NASA over the past 12 years and found that while there have been an unusually high number of fire alerts this year and bigger factor in causing the headline haze over Singapore has been wind patterns that push smoke directly over the island city-state. "While historic...
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