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Community and Media Invited to Attend Swearing-In Ceremony for New Portland Fire Chief Mike Myers
2016-06-30 01:20:22| PortlandOnline
Community and members of the media invited
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US Navy deploys MQ-8B Fire Scout with USS Coronado (LCS-4)
2016-06-30 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The US Navy has deployed the MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (VTUAV) aboard the Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS-4) to begin flight operations.
From fire breaks to fire hazards: Human activity & climate change transforming world's peatlands
2016-06-27 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Since the glaciers receded about 12,000 years ago, the humble bog has acted as a storage vault for atmospheric carbon, packed with dead moss and topped by a green layer of living moss that can come back after a burn. The world's bogs hold more carbon than the word's rainforests, and Canada is home to about 185 billion tonnes of increasingly vulnerable peat deposits, ranging from 40 cm to several metres deep. Dried peatlands fuelled a 2011 fire in Slave Lake Alberta, for example, and the recent...
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200 structures now destroyed in California fire
2016-06-26 13:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Latest on wildfires burning in the West (all times local): 10:42 a.m. Fire officials say 200 homes and other buildings have now been destroyed in a deadly wildfire burning in central California. The Kern County Fire Department reports that firefighters were making progress Sunday in establishing a perimeter around the 58-square-mile blaze. Fire officials say most of the flames are now within that perimeter. An elderly couple was found dead after becoming overcome by smoke and authorities...
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Britain, Greece, Israel help fight forest fire in Cyprus
2016-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Greece, Britain and Israel sent planes and helicopters to Cyprus on Monday to fight one of the largest forest fires to hit the island in years, and a firefighter was killed when a water carrier overturned, authorities said. It was the first fatality among firefighters reported in years in Cyprus, which has frequent brush fires during its hot summer months but on a considerably smaller scale. The blaze, possibly triggered by an attempt to burn dry stubble, broke out on Sunday in the foothills...
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