So far, FIREX-AQ has sampled fires of all types—big ones and small ones; smoldering fires and flaming fires; grass, brush, and forest fires.
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Forest fires became town fires, even coastal fires, with some people forced to the ocean's edge.
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But the changes we've seen in the past decade—more fires, hotter fires, larger fires, weirder fires—are not natural, and they are not going away.
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You could see the ... speaking of the fires, you could see the fires and the smoke ... the smoke from the fires.
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It isn't just the fires — although, my God, the fires.
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Ferris said there's the potential for the UAS to carry equipment that can detect fires, map fires, assess fire potential, and prioritize fires.
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There will be great fires, fires that will destroy the planet.
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He's working so hard just putting out fires that are fake fires.
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He fires a shot, Quinn screams, he fires another shot and there's silence.
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An average of 103 wildfires a year in California are started by illegal open fires, which include warming fires, cooking fires and campfires, according to Cal Fire.
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" Instead, though, "he's working so hard just putting out fires that are fake fires.
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Other fires Sixteen other active fires of lesser size are blazing around the West.
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Top three largest fires in California Firefighters in California are battling 15 large fires.
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Skrepnek said there were 155 fires across the province, including nine new fires since Monday.
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News outlets did not cover the prairie fires extensively, the way they do California fires.
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Fighting forest fires requires using thousands of tons of fires retardants that pollute water streams.
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They range from car fires, to campfires gone awry, to fires sparked by lightning strikes.
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By early evening, the number of emergency-level fires had eased to 15 fires simultaneously burning and three fires at that same level burning in Queensland state to the north.
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The coalition alleged that other fires were grass fires ignited by flares shot by law enforcement.
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Yellow dots show areas dominated by human-caused fires; purple shows areas where natural fires dominate.
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Unlike the fires in the American West, these aren't naturally occurring fires exacerbated by climate change.
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These fires came down into neighborhoods before anybody realized the fires were occurring in many cases.
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It's the figurative equivalent to blazing a championship trail with dumpster fires -- just minus the fires.
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Too much attention is now focused on fighting these fires, rather than dealing with future fires.
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That day, there were 22 new fires raging in the Great Basin, and two fires uncontained.
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By pointing out that only WE can prevent forest fires and reminding us to be careful about fires, Smokey has probably single-handedly helped thousands of people stop catastrophic forest fires.
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The map, created by NASA, denotes fires with red dots, based on heat measurements that detect fires.
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The fires in So. Cal are urban interface fires and have NOTHING to do with forest management.
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This increases the likelihood of people igniting fires and the damage from the fires that do occur.
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The Ranch Fire, one of the two fires making up the Mendocino Complex fires, torched 410,203 acres.
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In California, five fires have consumed 42,2105 acres; Colorado has eight fires with nearly 2100,2000 acres burned.
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"Fires in indigenous forests are mostly man-made and that's where the biggest fires are," he added.
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The western U.S., western Canada is seeing more fires, larger fires than we know of ever before.
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Louisiana church fires A suspect has been arrested in the fires that destroyed three historically black churches.
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"The key point about cease-fires is that they aren't all black and white – imperfect or partial cease-fires, or even cease-fires observed partly in the breach, can be useful," he said.
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Yes. Fires can burn away undergrowth, preventing buildups of flammable vegetation that can make big fires even worse.
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Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng On the surface, Little Fires Everywhere is about a small community in Ohio.
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"It seems that autumn fires and wide range of summer fires occurred due to global warming," Verkhovets said.
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The strong winds fanned fires across New South Wales state, with Australia's Rural Fire Service reporting 21 fires.
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The study pointed to more fires and to fires increasingly fueled by vegetation made drier by climate change.
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Brazil has seen more than 74,000 fires this year — nearly double 2018's total of about 40,000 fires.
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When fires hit those downed trees, the state will begin to experience "mass fires" spewing plumes of carbon.
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And the hundreds of embers pushed in front of the fires become small spot fires themselves, he said.
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Multiple fires are burning Of the active fires burning in California, more than half broke out this week.
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"The small fires will be extinguished but the big fires will go on for a while," she said.
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Fires increase air pollution New fires were reported in Montana, Oklahoma and Texas on Wednesday, the center reported.
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The prolonged drought causes embers from fires to spread, leading to more intense fires in the 2019 season.
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The Fires Are Out, but Australia's Climate Disasters Aren't Over: Devastating floods came soon after the bush fires.
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Some fires are generating their own storm systems, which create the risk of lightning strikes generating new fires.
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Here, more sporadic, smaller fires have been noted, as opposed to the mega fires of New South Wales.
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The fires have posed the most dangerous conditions since the 2017 wine country fires that killed 22 people.
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"By analogy, we might say that a drought predisposes an area to forest fires, but we don't say that a drought causes forest fires or is the main driver of forest fires," he said.
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Lightning causes frequent fires across the prairies, and prescribed fires have been set for centuries largely for land management and food production, so the prairies have evolved with low-intensity fires every few years.
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The Woolsey and Hill fires are just two of three fires that have devastated California over the last week.
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Some species were considered threatened before the fires, and the fires have now likely increased their risk of extinction.
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We will slowly rebuild what we lose, I suppose, over and over, throughout our lives — fires or no fires.
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Across the state, the total number of fires is trending downward, but the size of fires is going up.
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That includes maintenance outages started prior to the fires and shut-ins since the fires started on May 1.
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This fuel accumulation can turn naturally occurring ground fires into deadly crown fires that quickly spread out of control.
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Cease-fires can fail for many reasons and unilateral cease-fires tend to be more fleeting than negotiated ones.
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Almost73,000 fires have been recordedin the Amazon Rainforest this year — nearly double 2018's total of about 40,000 fires.
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But in 2019, Brazil has already had over 72,000 fires, nearly double its 2018 total of almost 40,000 fires.
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But this year, "the fires are behaving differently than I've ever seen in my years fighting fires," he said.
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The Black Saturday fires occurred on the seventh of February 2009; the Canberra 2003 fires occurred in late January.
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Mobile apps such as Fires Near Me and VicEmergency provide real-time updates and warn communities about approaching fires.
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Close to 33 fires were burning across NSW, and the RFS said some fires were generating their own thunderstorms.
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Most research on fires and children has focused on young people who have already been caught setting illicit fires.
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"If you look at the West Coast, there were some notable fires and fires in notable areas," Skar said.
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"We're going to see more large fires and more damaging fires," Steinberg said in a phone interview on Friday.
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Garcetti acknowledged other major fires that are burning throughout Southern California and said Los Angeles would be able to send resources to assist those fires as soon as the fires plaguing the city come under control.
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Coffee said several fires were reported in the area throughout the day, and several times multiple fires merged into one.
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This will likely fuel the fires even further, and possibly start new fires as it blows embers and ash elsewhere.
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Further north in Queensland, more than 50 fires were burning on Sunday, with emergency warnings in place for two fires.
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The fires became so bad Bolivian President Evo Morales put his re-election campaign on hold to fight the fires.
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The number of fires this year in the Amazon is the highest since 2010, reaching more than 90,20023 active fires.
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He has spent three decades fighting fires in Mato Grosso, one of the regions most affected by the ongoing fires.
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More fires don't mean more dire Chiefly, the idea of "more" fires doesn't necessarily translate into a more dire situation.
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Without being able to properly manage lands to prevent fires, we'll have to rely heavily on early suppression of fires.
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While lichen tolerated less severe fires, researchers found, growth did not return as long as 16 years after major fires.
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Fires are largely underreported, however, and Fogelman estimates that there were actually around 1,800 fires at waste facilities in 2019.
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Right-wing pundits in Australia have been blaming Greens for fires while simultaneously shrugging off concerns about fires for years.
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Places like the Brazilian rainforest or the far north of Sweden, where natural fires are rare, are seeing record fires.
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These Indigenous techniques can lessen the damage that fires cause by reducing fuel loads and restricting fires to smaller areas.
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The fires have far exceeded the size of the fires in the Amazon in 2019, which then prompted global outcry.
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Forest fires In the wake of the deadly fires that have ravaged California, the House will take up legislation this week to address the federal response to forest fires, and change how forest management programs are funded.
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Indonesia forest fires People have been paying lots of attention to the fires in the Amazon, but there's a group of fires on the other side of the world we all need to keep an eye on, too.
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Following last year's fires, the Indonesian government has faced strong pressure from its neighbouring countries to prevent or suppress these fires.
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Safes that can withstand longer fires cost more and may not be necessary since most home fires last less than that.
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When the winds started topping out at 80 mph, fires started spotting -- carrying embers very far away and igniting new fires.
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Individual buildings and a town block burned here and there, but fires in cities no longer spread like fires in forests.
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Fuel driven forest fires are common in Northern California while wind-driven fires happen in the Southern part of the state.
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Scientists have already recorded more than 74,000 fires in Brazil this year, almost doubling the number of fires recorded in 103.
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Almost 73,000 fires have been recorded in the Amazon rainforest this year — nearly double 2018's total of about 40,000 fires.
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Have larger fires led to larger wildfire budgets, or have larger wildfire budgets led to larger fires and greater suppression expenditures?
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The bill mitigates liability from fires in 2017 and others starting in 2019, but made no provision for fires this year.
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Scientists have already recorded more than 74,403 fires in Brazil this year, almost doubling the number of fires recorded in 2018.
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Dias said she hoped the military would help to prevent new fires but putting out existing fires is a tougher task.
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Although the number of fires rose, it was still below the historic average of 109,630 fires in the Amazon each year.
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The cost might be worth it The most common way fires are handled now is with medium-intensity fires, Leonard said.
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The Amazon fires this summer triggered an international outcry, and Bolsonaro eventually responded by sending the military to fight the fires.
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The law mitigates liability from fires in 2017 and others starting in 2019, but made no provision for fires last year.
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You've got a lot of people who are always creating potential fires by lighting fires either on purpose or on accident.
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In Alaska, fires were burning as far north as the treeless Arctic, where lightning has ignited a cluster of tundra fires.
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Read More: Amazon fires created a smoke eclipse in the skies above Brazil's largest city, 2,000 miles awayThis year so far, scientists have recorded more than 74,000 fires in Brazil — nearly double 2018's total of about 40,000 fires.
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In Northern California, fires have destroyed houses and vineyards — some fires have moved so quickly they have trapped people in their homes.
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"At that point the agitators started fires and a water truck was called up to the scene" to put out the fires.
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Of the 10 most destructive fires, all but two happened since 2003, and the two previous fires took place in the 1990s.
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Two fires in Washington The Spartan and Sutherland Canyon fires were burning across 56,500 acres in three counties as of late Thursday.
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But it saw those fires getting more savage and knew that new houses compromised attempts to contain fires as a wildland issue.
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The Long-Range Precision Fires CFT seeks to provide Army units superior long-range and deep-strike surface-to-surface fires capabilities.
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On Saturday morning, there were six emergency-level fires burning in NSW, with more than 70 fires across the state in total.
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Massive fires destroyed 110 homes in Breezy Point, one of the most devastating fires that occurred as a result of Superstorm Sandy.
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The fire department responded twice in the same night after the fires reignited, a common pattern with fires involving lithium-ion batteries.
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Brazil's government is calling warnings about the record fires in the Amazon "sensationalist," and claiming the fires are not an international problem.
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""And fires, I could see fires spring up through this undercast, or whatever you would call it, that was covering the city.
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Meanwhile, as of Tuesday morning, the two largest fires—the Tubbs and Atlas Peak fires—remained at or near 103 percent containment.
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Pulling the trigger also fires up a vape pen, which releases just enough vapor to make the laser visible as it fires.
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In August, scientists said they had recorded more than 74,000 fires in Brazil — nearly double 2018's total of about 40,000 fires.
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According to INPE, the number of fires detected in the Amazon region was 89,178 in 2019 compared with 68,345 fires in 2018.
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"There were some very spatially extensive fires in the 1970s but ... the carbon intensity of these fires is number one," he said.
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Colonization has not only had an impact on the start of the fires, but also on how the fires have been handled.
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The incident is the latest in a series of fires at the Fremont facility, which suffered two minor fires in June alone.
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In August, when international criticism of the fires was at its peak, he accused environmental groups of setting fires in the Amazon.
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In combination with a rapid uptick in deforestation, a key driver of fires, many of the fires have burned out of control.
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"We can now confirm all three of these fires are intentionally set, and all three of these fires are related," Browning said.
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"We can now confirm all three of these fires were intentionally set, and all three of these fires are related," Browning said.
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The Tubbs and Atlas fires are carving a path of destruction through Northern California, and 33 active fires burn throughout the state.
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"This year we came up with a strong bipartisan success in fixing the wildfire funding issue that had kind of paralyzed our ability to go out and fight fires and suppress fires and mitigate next year's forest fires," he said.
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The fires have already burned about 14.5 million acres — an area almost as large as West Virginia, more than triple the area destroyed by the 2018 fires in California and six times the size of the 19863 fires in Amazonia.
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"But no one had done this on natural fires, and especially not on the kind of extreme fires seen in 2015," he added.
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Fires in the Nataf area of Israel have died down, effectively placing all fires in central and northern Israel under control, said Rosenfeld.
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Bolsonaro initially suggested that the fires were normal, then said that non-government organizations themselves were setting the fires to hurt his government.
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In Yuba County, 4 deaths have been linked to the fires and, in Napa County, two people's deaths were attributed to the fires.
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Catastrophic fires also damage watersheds, scorch and sterilize land, and increase the likelihood of floods and mudslides in the rainy season after fires.
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The three churches destroyed by the fires have mostly black congregations, raising authorities' suspicion that the fires may be racially motivated hate crimes.
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More than 72,000 fires have been reported by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), a stark increase from last year's 40,000 fires.
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This year, between January and August, almost 73,000 fires have been recorded, which is nearly double 2018's total of nearly 40,000 fires.
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The 733 furniture fires made up just over 2% of all residential fires yet resulted in 14% of deaths, the study team notes.
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"Christmas is not here yet and we are already answering calls related to house fires caused by trees, and these are preventable fires."
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Fires also damage watersheds, and as we see fires burning hotter and longer, the soil is actually becoming scorched and sterilized, preventing regrowth.
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"Climate impacts the fires, and the fires can potentially impact climate, and we don't know where we're going," Buchholz, an Australian, told NPR.
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Over 100 fires are burning just in Washington, and last weekend, California saw one of the biggest fires in Los Angeles city history.
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The fires have been devastating for rural areas, and authorities said approximately 480 million mammals, birds, and reptiles, have died in the fires.
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"When I posted that, it was totally against people who celebrate fires, who think that these fires are better for us," he said.
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The rise in fires set in the Amazon this year, stoked by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's encouragement of large-scale deforestation for logging and agriculture, is emblematic of the region's persistent deforestation woes: Some fires are set to clear forest that has already been chopped down, many fires are the reburning of already deforested agricultural land, and some fires are escaped, uncontrolled blazes.
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There are currently three major fires affecting communities in Northern and Southern California, but the fires affecting some of YouTube's creator communities are the Woolsey and Hill fires, which grew to 8,000 acres between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, according to CNN.
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"Find a solution, a more permanent one against economic-motivated forest fires because according to reports I have received, 99% of forest fires were started by humans," Widodo told a meeting with cabinet ministers and heads of agencies in charge of extinguishing fires.
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The Hammonds say the fires were meant to protect their property from invasive plant species and another fire, although the government said one of the fires was meant to hide illegal deer killing, and both fires put people, including firefighters, at risk.
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Further north in Queensland, more than 50 fires were burning Sunday morning and a fire ban was declared across 42 local areas in the state, prohibiting the lighting of any outdoor fires and banning certain activities that can cause fires to ignite.
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According to the National Fire Protection Association, the top three days for home candle fires are Christmas, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, and fires that begin in a Christmas tree are more likely to result in death than other home fires.
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Wright points out that there are many ways Aboriginal people have managed fires by using "skillful" burning, like the mosaic cool-fire technique, which uses low-intensity fires to clear underbrush, making future fires less chaotic and giving animals time to get away.
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Those figures include both live and artificial trees, but the NFPA reports that "a disproportionate share of Christmas tree fires involved natural trees," with live-tree fires outnumbering artificial-tree fires by about three to one and causing about 20 times more injuries.
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But 2019 has seen more fires compared to recent years, and August saw a spike ahead of the annual season when fires are typically more frequent: The state of Amazonas had 11,412 fires in August alone, compared to 16,587 in all of 2018.
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"On public roads, we have never had to deal with vehicle fires, of course some kind of accidents but never fires," said Lt. Col.
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A total count of 22 fires on Wednesday fell to 21 on Thursday because two large fires merged, said state Fire Chief Ken Pimlott.
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Before western settlers arrived, fires used to happen often and naturally, which helped forests regenerate and also made less fuel available for future fires.
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I said to myself, you know, I said to somebody there, look at Reince working so hard putting out fires that are fake fires.
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East of the Rockies, human-caused fires happen most often when people burn yard waste and the fires get out of control, Bradley said.
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"Natural fires are very rare in the Amazon, so all, or almost all, the fires we are seeing are set by humans," she added.
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Experts say the fires have been especially difficult to put out because of the El Nino phenomenon, resulting in drier weather and fiercer fires.
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While fires still blaze across the West, the immediate focus must be containing fires, evacuating communities at risk and providing temporary food and shelter.
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But the law, Senate Bill 901, applies to fires beginning in 2019, and in some of last year's incidents — not to this year's fires.
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Those fires have complicated everyone's understanding of how residents get out of the way of fires—and whether they choose to leave at all.
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By July 19, the civil protection department had tallied 1,551 forest fires, more than the numbers of fires in all of 2016 and 2017.
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But the fires of the past two years — the wine country fires in Napa and Sonoma Counties and the inferno that all but razed the town of Paradise — have shown that some wind-driven fires are so intense that firefighters are helpless to stop them.
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The furious winds that helped the initial spread of both the wine country fires in October and the current round of fires in Southern California have highlighted the difficulty — and at the peak of the winds, the seeming futility — of trying to stop the fires.
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While that position tends to mean stopping fires in 2018, in Montag's society, the gig equates to starting fires the moment anyone sees a book.
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It is still not clear if PG&E was to blame for the fires, but it has been found guilty before of negligence in fires.
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Nearly two years of peace negotiations in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, yielded several cease-fires, and recommitments to cease-fires, that were broken almost immediately.
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Fires fueled by wind and dry conditions Authorities have noted windy and dry conditions Sunday and Monday made it easy for the fires to spread.
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Tesla has faced concerns over vehicle fires, though the electric-car maker has suggested that media coverage of fires in Tesla vehicles has been misleading.
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They don't always produce massive flames, but in terms of how much fuel they eat up, peat fires are the biggest fires we know of.
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On Bennett Lane, where the deadliest of the fires is believed to have started, wires littered the roads even a week after the fires began.
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Fires are moving faster than anyone has ever seen, and barriers that in years past contained fires — bulldozer lines, highways, rivers — are now no match.
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He explained that the fires are expanding along the borders of new agricultural development, which is what's often seen in fires related to forest clearing.
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When early Europeans tried to copy Aboriginal techniques by lighting fires, they made the fires too hot, and got even more of the flammable scrub.
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Fire investigators determined that PG&E's equipment was responsible for at least 18 of 21 major fires in 2017 as well as fires in 2018.
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By comparison, about 1.9 million acres burned in the 2018 fires in California; those fires, which were the state's most destructive, killed about 100 people.
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Trump has repeatedly blamed forest management for the fires in California, and this weekend he dodged questions about what role climate change played in the fires.
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A logistical nightmare: Many of the fires are burning near homes and urban areas, and with limited resources they're taking priority over rural fires, causing conflict.
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The fires have destroyed vineyards and there's been concern that smoke from the fires could cause damage to the grapes that have yet to be picked.
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More people means more activity that can spark forest fires, according to Sergei A. Bartalav, the director of a laboratory that helps monitor fires in Russia.
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The recent fires, which join the uptick of almost twice as many Amazon fires as recorded last year, are widespread enough to be seen from space.
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The Amazon rainforest is burning at an unprecedented rate: More than 74,833 fires have sparked so far this year, compared to 40,000 total fires in 2018.
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The two largest fires are the Mendocino Complex Fire -- which itself is made up of two nearby fires that officials have combined -- and the Carr Fire.
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But many of the fires merged and it remains possible that embers from one fire could have started what are currently being classified as separate fires.
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As fires spread on Thursday, the Queensland police and fire services used Twitter and Facebook to frequently update residents on the paths of often unpredictable fires.
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Both fires prompted the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, some not realizing how dangerous the fires had become until flames arrived at their doorsteps.
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The number of fires in Acre has more than doubled so far this year compared with the year-ago period, with 90 fires registered from Aug.
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These ominous clouds carry embers and smoke miles away from the fires, and also produce lightning that can strike dry vegetation and start even more fires.
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Thousands of firefighters, park rangers, state employees, and volunteers are on the front lines fighting the fires, but new fires keep starting and spreading, she said.
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The Kern County Fire Department said it was dealing with "multiple injuries" that it described as minor, two house fires, small brush fires and gas leaks.
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The number of fires at waste facilities across the United States and Canada increased by 1003 percent from 2016 to 2019 — from 272 reported fires to 343, respectively — Fogelman finds in his 2019 annual waste and recycling facility fires report, which was published on February 25th.
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Ran Sheluf, head of the investigation unit of the Israel fire and rescue services, said the total number of fires reported to authorities was over 1,500 fires.
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Why it matters: Per the National Weather Service, the fires are posing the most dangerous conditions since the 2017 wine country fires that killed 22 people. Gov.
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Photographer Robert LeBlanc shadowed firefighters battling the Caribou and Gibralter Ridge fires in the Kootenai National Forest in Montana, where just over 43 fires are burning statewide.
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Fires that broke out at a chemical manufacturing plant near Houston are out, the company said Thursday, but more fires at the flooded facility are still possible.
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Past fires were also fueled by drought There was one major factor that played a role in the 2017 and 2018 fires: they were fueled by drought.
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Some of those engines will be assigned to active fires, Osby said, while others will be staging and preparing for additional fires that could ignite this week.
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" PG&E responded in a statement: "As the fires continue to burn, we're focused on supporting firefighting efforts to contain the fires and protect life and property.
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Some experts say climate change has created the conditions conducive to feeding fires -- such as drier air and plant life, contributing to more days of extreme fires.
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Of the fires resulting in death, 95, or 26%, involved smoking materials as a heat source, as compared with 73 fires, or 8%, started by open flames.
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Huge new fires appeared in subsequent months, causing record damage, including the ongoing fires around Los Angeles that are poised to burn the rest of the year.
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Along with the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, which had multiple active fires, iconic spots with fires burning include Denali National Park and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Finally, amid growing international pressure, Bolsonaro pledged to send troops to fight the fires and then banned the use of fires to clear land for 60 days.
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A listing for black-backed woodpeckers would almost certainly require a new approach to forest fires that would include allowing some fires caused by lightning to burn.
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The bushfires in Australia are creating violent weather systems that can spark new fires, conjure fire tornadoes and make fighting existing fires much more challenging, experts say.
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Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere is a study in the beautiful chaos that can be found within even the most controlled communities.
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Nationally, fires caused by play and reported to municipal fire departments, accounted for an average of 113,211 fires per year from 215 to 22005, the association reported.
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"There is no way we can completely eliminate or end the forest and land fires in Indonesia, because they are very much linked to behaviors of communities that light fires," he said, referring to farmers who use fires to prepare land for crops and clear it for plantations.
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As the fires began, Mr. Garcetti, who has lived through his share of fires and earthquakes, sought to reassure a city watching the fast spread of out-of-control fires, whipped by Santa Ana winds and with the potential to inflict catastrophic damage across wide swaths of the city.
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Correspondents at CNN's bureau in Lagos, Nigeria, have been told many of the fires in central Africa around Angola and the Congo are the result of controlled fires by farmers, and preliminary data shows the number or acreage of the fires may actually be a bit below normal levels.
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The forest fires are forcing the state to close several state parks so that the people who work there can help fight the fires, CNN-affiliated WTVD reported.
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More than 680 firefighters have been dispatched to battle the fires and a Type 1 incident command team — assigned to the largest fires — took charge on Saturday morning.
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Last year, its members responded to calls during the Carr and Camp fires, helping to rescue — by Mr. Jones's account — more than 5,000 animals between the two fires.
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When asked to name any precedent for fires of this sort ravaging an entire industry, he cites the Oakland fires of 1991, and, much earlier, Berkeley's in 1923.
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Some of the recent fires have been started by "dry lightning," and others have allegedly been started by people purposely lighting fires despite a country-wide fire ban.
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The fires that are devastating Northern California have killed 31 people, according to Cal Fire, making it one of the deadliest series of fires ever in the state.
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In Greece, fast-moving fires have killed at least 80 people, and Sweden is struggling to contain more than 50 fires amid its worst drought in 74 years.
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But as the wildfires burned, Mr. Newsom praised the Trump administration for making federal funds available to fight several fires, including the Getty, Tick, Kincade and Easy fires.
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Bolsonaro, however, said that the fires, which are destroying large swathes of the world's largest rainforest are no worse than fires in recent years, and are in the
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Read more: Amazon fires created a smoke eclipse in the skies above Brazil's largest city, 2,000 miles awayMacron has lambasted Bolsonaro for his apparent indifference over the fires.
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"Deforestation was the root cause of the fires," Matt Finer, a researcher at the Amazon Conservation Society who helped monitor the fires using satellite data, told VICE News.
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The fires are worse this year because of record heat over the summer and high winds now, which can swiftly turn the smallest fires into fast-moving infernos.
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While they can certainly help in slow-moving fires, they have proved no match to the high-wind fires that made this fire season in California so destructive.
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Perhaps the rate of catastrophic fires California has experienced over the past two years will not be sustained, but there's every reason to expect many horrific future fires.
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While bush fires are an annual occurrence in Australia and deadlier fires have occurred there, this fire season began unusually early and is projected to last for months.
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Chile fires At least 200 homes in Chile have been destroyed after forest fires swept through a residential area in the port city of Valparaiso on Christmas Eve.
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The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the worst since 1906, was followed by the 1991 Oakland fires, followed by the 1993 Malibu fires, followed by the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
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Candles are a leading cause of fires in New York City, and two-thirds of the deadly fires here involve smoke alarms that don't work, Mr. Long said.
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The prime minister said there had been 263 fires nationwide this year, but Salahuddin's civil defense chief told Reuters there were 22014 fires during May in that province.
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When asked about the fires, he ludicrously accused environmental NGOs of starting the fires themselves in retaliation for funding cuts and in order to make his government look bad.
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So what does that mean for the parents, educators, and government representatives of the children who have survived other fires, like the fires that raged through California last year?
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Kia said six fires are linked to the new recall but no reports of injuries, while Hyundai said it had no reports of fires linked to the new recall.
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While Canada's firefighters are able to manage nearly all the fires in their provinces, he said, just 3 percent of fires are responsible for 97 percent of area burned.
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"The important thing to know about the Amazon is that few fires occur there naturally," Mikaela Weisse, who tracks deforestation and fires for the World Resources Institute, told Vice.
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Amazon fires created a smoke eclipse in the skies above Brazil's largest city, 2,000 miles awayBrazil's president is blaming farmers clearing land for the fires raging through the Amazon.
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The regions are prioritized on a scale of 1 to 5, according to the number of fires they have and the threats these fires present to lives and communities.
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The winter season is particularly perilous for home fires: Half of all home heating fires take place in December, January and February, according to the National Fire Protection Association.
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While this is the dry season for the area, during which fires are common, fires have nonetheless reached unprecedented highs this season — up 22019 percent compared to last year.
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A mild El Nino weather pattern this year has aggravated the impact of fires, with the number of hot spots rising to the highest since devastating fires in 663.
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I propose that we allocate a significant portion of our massive military budget to improving early detection of fires and building up resources to confront these fires once detected.
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The devastation began with the wine country fires in October, and just two months later fires in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties became the largest in recorded state history.
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In California, energy company PG&E has been responsible for more than 1,500 fires since 2014, so it has announced and implemented rolling blackouts to avoid sparking more fires.
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I tried to explain that fires are actually good for the forest, that they clear out the underbrush, and some trees, like the Giant Sequoia, need fires to regenerate.
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Police in Victoria have refuted the notion that the fires there were started by arsonists, and there's no question that climate change has contributed to the fires' unprecedented spread.
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While rotary-wing aircraft have proven useful in controlling night fires, there's still debate whether fixed-wing air tankers are safe enough to use after dark to combat fires.
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Such fires are common in Australia's hot, dry summers, but the ferocity and early arrival of the fires in the southern spring this year have caught many by surprise.
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Now fires are managed using a multiplicity of objectives and tactics, ranging from full suppression to allowing fires to grow larger so long as they stay within desired ranges.
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"Those fires are not so innocent," Nikos Toskas, Greece's minister of public order and citizen protection, said on Monday, apparently suspicious of the proliferation of so many small fires.
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It is 77 percent contained, and other fires continue to rage in Northern California and other areas These fires are spurred on by extreme heat and dryness in the region.
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"I have witnessed many fires in my community and personally experienced the devastation of those fires up close and personal," he said at the meeting, according to Entertainment Tonight Canada.
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These smaller fires act as a kind of incendiary rake, clearing out grasses, shrubs and other plant matter before they can overgrow to become fuel for bigger, more extreme fires.
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Another two deaths in Sonoma County are believed to be directly linked to the devastating fires still burning in Northern California, bringing the death toll of the fires to 193.
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TRUMP, JERRY BROWN MAKE DUELING CLAIMS ON CAUSE OF CALIFORNIA FIRES The Northern California fires are burning a few miles apart and have been ablaze since July 27, officials said.
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Among the factors cited behind the fires' ferocity are high winds, the start of fires at night, heavy vegetation that dried out after a hot summer and dry conditions. 236.
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Winds are expected to weaken overnight, which should help in fighting the fires but high temperatures and dry conditions that feed the fires will remain through the weekend, forecasters said.
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NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons urged people to evacuate before conditions worsened, warning that new fires can begin up to 20km (12 miles) ahead of established fires.
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Winds, climate change provoking fires Firefighters made headway in containing the fires Saturday, but the return of powerful winds a day later threatened that progress, especially for the Woolsey fire.
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But on Monday, all the awful elements came together: high winds from the south spread fires that had erupted because of persistent drought and, as with many forest fires, arson.
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Why it matters: This was the deadliest series of fires in the state's history, the Associated Press explains, and two of the fires resulted in the deaths of 15 people.
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Still, serious fires declined 8 percent in 2017 compared to 2016, and there were more than 400 fewer serious fires compared to 2015, a 15.5% reduction, the fire department said.
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That's not a spoiler, by the way: Hulu's Little Fires opens with the titular fires, set in every room of the Richardson house before consuming it in an almighty blaze.
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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro responded to the fires this week by sending the in the military, though he insists the fires that have been burning for weeks are under control.
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As the current fires rage, officials have determined that the Pacific Gas and Electric Company was responsible for at least 17 of 21 major fires in Northern California last fall.
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For starters, the push for "social distancing," or limiting contact to 6 feet away, is nearly impossible when fighting fires, when the standard procedure is to fight fires in groups.
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Even though we weren't pursuing "curative therapy" — her cardiac and respiratory disease were grave and irreversible — we were able to put out the little fires before they became big fires.
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Fires: The city and tournament organizers are trying to forecast the winds, as smoke from nearby fires dusted the air and created a haze for players in the qualifying rounds.
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It turns out that only 24 people are currently facing criminal charges for deliberately igniting fires in New South Wales, and even fewer have actually managed to start large fires.
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The fires may have stopped raging in Israel for the time being, but the hatred that started these fires is still raging in the hearts and minds of the arsonists.
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It's a big change from how fires are often spotted in the US. Current methods include looking for fires via planes or lookout towers, or simply having civilians report them.
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Fires are also threatening towns just outside of the national park, such as Jindabyne, where residents were told on Friday at community briefings that the fires could not be contained.
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AAA pointed out that grills cause nearly 9,000 accidental fires each year, according to the National Fire Protection Association, and the majority of those fires happen in the summer months.
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That definitely was part of what stoked the fires, the initial PR fires of, "Oh, Yelp is manipulating the reviews for advantage," or to sell ads or what have you.
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"We have significant reports of fires, structural fires, mostly as a result of gas leaks or gas line breaks," OES Director Mark Ghilarducci told a late-night news conference on Friday.
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Gizmodo spent much of the last week covering the devastating fires in California—such as the daunting questions of what went wrong and how communities affected by the fires will rebuild.
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NASA has a neat tool showing how fires burn across the globe over time that you can play with here, demonstrating the annual nature of Saharan, Sub-Saharan, and Indonesian fires.
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As fires rage in California, a new study indicates that the droughts that can fuel these fires are going to become more frequent in the coming decades — thanks to melting glaciers.
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From Musk's perspective, former employees said, the number of Tesla battery fires was relatively minuscule in comparison to the total number of car fires per year, which number somewhere around 170,000.
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Sonoma County has been hard hit by the deadly fires this week, accounting for most of the deaths attributed to more than 20 fires that have sit the state since Monday.
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Christmas tree fires are rare, but they still account for roughly 200 home fires each year, destroying an annual $14 million in the process, the National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) says.
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"Smoke from the fires drifted into the Bay Area, into San Francisco [which is 60 miles south of the fires] and as far south as San Jose," the LA Times reports.
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Not aiming to 'make the kids pay' Due to the fires, 153 hikers had to shelter overnight Saturday as they were trapped between the fires at Eagle Creek and Indian Creek.
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After the fires broke out, President Trump tweeted, "There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Trump tweeted.
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According to the National Park Service, a vast majority of fires never get that big, and 2% to 3% of all fires make up 95% of total areas burned every year.
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As the fires returned this year, the national police halted investigations in July into 15 companies in the Sumatran province of Riau for reportedly starting fires to clear land in 2015.
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And in the Angeles National Forest, on the northern edge of Los Angeles, two fires kept more than 2000 families from their homes as the fires threatened to merge into one.
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Images of the danger and destruction spread as fast as the fires themselves on social media: wedding chapels ablaze, uncontrollable fires reaching main highways, smoke and ash obscuring the night sky.
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Satellite data shows that Central Russia saw 7,200 fires during the first half of July, about four times as many fires as detected during the same period between 2013 and 2017.
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The Amazon rainforest continues to burn at a record rate: more than 80,2000 fires have been recorded this year, over an 210% increase of the total number of fires in 220.
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The NSM would be fired from a mobile launch platform based on an unmanned Joint Light Tactical Vehicle called the Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary Fires, or ROGUE-Fires, vehicle.
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Fires are burning on combined area of 4,700 hectares (11,614 acres) in the concessions awarded to the three suspect companies and the 24 other companies linked to forest fires, Sani said.
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In fires near the towns of La Croix-Valmer and Artigues, at least 10 firefighters were injured on Tuesday, but those fires were under control, the Var prefecture said on Wednesday.
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Indonesia fires: Officials say that most of the thousands of fires in Borneo and Sumatra were set intentionally to clear the land for plantations for palm oil, a lucrative cash crop.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia — Amid growing international alarm over fires in Brazil's Amazon region, neighboring Bolivia is facing devastating fires of its own, with flames devouring farmland and environmentally sensitive forests alike.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia — Amid growing international alarm over fires in Brazil's Amazon region, neighboring Bolivia is facing devastating fires of its own, with flames devouring farmland and environmentally sensitive forests alike.
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Fires are also burning in the states of Tasmania and Victoria — where, in the town of Mallacoota, thousands of people were told to jump into the ocean as the fires approached.
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" He said the fires seemed to be "extremely organized.
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AMAZONIA, Brazil — Fires raged across Arariboia in late September.
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From the power lines and the campfires that spark them, to preventing smaller fires, to building in dangerous areas, to warming the overall climate, humans are making fires worse at every step.
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President Donald Trump toured the devastated town of Paradise, California, on Saturday, and said the extent of the fires had been unpredictable — while dodging questions about climate change's role in the fires.
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Trump's visit will come more than a week after the Woolsey, Hill, and Camp fires broke out and after he sent an inaccurate tweet blaming the state's forest management for the fires.
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A key reason for Portugal's regular summer forest fires is that much of the interior is owned by absent landlords, making it difficult to enforce clearing of land to prevent fires spreading.
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The report, which included fires in Mendocino, Lake, Butte, Sonoma, Napa, and Humboldt counties, found that in many cases the fires started after trees or branches fell onto PG&E power lines.
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The bigger catch is that the study didn't include kids who had to switch schools after the fires, which could mean the results we're seeing are an underestimate of the fires' consequences.
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The wildfire season in drought-stricken California officially began in May but a string of major fires over the past two weeks marked the first widespread outbreak of intense fires this year.
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"The cooking fires and heating are so high risk, with homes built so closely together, that shack fires begin and spread very quickly," said Lumkani co-founder and managing director David Gluckman.
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"They need to heed any warnings related to fireworks regarding the area that they're allowed to be lit because we frankly don't need any more fires, especially human-caused fires," he said.
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On Friday, NSW fire authorities issued a record number of emergency warnings, with 17 fires declared to be at an emergency level as high winds and dry-conditions saw fires spread rapidly.
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Energy provider Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) has been found liable for the Kincade and Getty fires, with the smaller Southern California Edison to blame for the Woolsey and Thomas Fires.
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" Earlier this week he accused nongovernmental organizations of starting the fires in a plot to tarnish his image, saying "everything indicates that people went there to film and then to set fires.
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Anton Beneslavsky, a Greenpeace activist, however, said the fires were caused by a combination of climate change and what he said were ineffective measures in place to bring forest fires under control.
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And the fires are still going, as you can see in this map of current wildfires in California below: Luckily there have been no deaths so far in the Southern California fires.
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Even before the bush fires, Pearce had been thinking about moving perch out of the creek and into captivity because of declining water quality caused by drought; the fires made that urgent.
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But there's another kind of continuity between this image and D'Souza's, both of which glow with something that seems like a cross between the fires of war and the fires of apocalypse.
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But "natural fires are very rare in the Amazon, so all, or almost all, the fires we are seeing are set by humans," Global Forest Watch's Mikaela Weisse told the N.Y. Times.
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Yet on flat and dry savannas, natural fires do occur more commonly, sometimes because of lightning, said Daniel Botini-Alves, a researcher into tropical savanna forest fires at Sao Paulo State University.
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Satellite data like that from FIRMS doesn't give the cause or type of fire, which means things like controlled burns or brush fires appear the same to the eye as forest fires.
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And despite that buildings are safer these days — the U.S. is around record lows for structural fires even though we keep building more buildings — the costs to fight fires keep going up.
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"We can immediately tell that there's these enormous forest fires consuming parts of the Amazon forest, for example, but we don't know what fires are being lit under the sea," Chavez says.
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Matthew Amiot, 36, was formally charged in court Monday with a felony count of negligent fires and a misdemeanor count of negligent fires with injury to a person, CNN affiliate WCCO reported.
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The fires were allegedly caused by farmers using slash and burn techniques to clear the ecologically rich land -- the same practice that led to uncontrollable fires in the Brazilian Amazon this summer.
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Matthew Amiot faces one count of negligent fires and one count of negligent fires with an injury to a person, according to the police probable cause statement obtained by CNN affiliate WCCO.
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Melbourne, located in Victoria, had several fires burning in the Wimmera and Gippsland regions, though most of the smoke that clouded the sky was due to fires raging in New South Wales.
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And as the smoke from these fires shows, even people far away stand to suffer more as climate change raises average temperatures, drying out trees and increasing the burned area from fires.
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State officials have blamed the company's equipment for starting at least 17 of 21 major fires in Northern California in 2017, and they suspect PG&E of causing additional fires last year.
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When asked about the fires, he ludicrously responded by accusing environmental NGOs of setting the fires themselves so as to make his government look bad, in retaliation for his cuts in their funding.
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According to NBC News, the Santa Ana winds, which are fueling the fires, are expected to increase over the remainder of the weekend, which could pose a threat to further containing the fires.
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A study by the universities of Harvard and Columbia of slash-and-burn fires in Indonesia in 2015 blamed the fires for 100,000 additional deaths and 500,000 injuries in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia.
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"We have experienced fires the last four years, and so we&aposre very aware of what can happen with fires and the damage they can cause," Lake County Sheriff Lt. Corey Paulich said.
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But most people aren't cleared to fly near these fires: The FAA issued temporary flight restrictions over the area of the Coffey Park fire in the fall, when the fires were most severe.
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"The fact that more fires are happening at the wildland urban interface means that fires are encountering new materials," says Jessica McCarty, a geographer at Miami University specializing in fire-related air pollution.
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"The potential for new fires that could grow exponentially as these fires did in such a short time period is there," said Lynne Tolmachoff, spokeswoman for California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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Climate change may make things worse Climate change is not directly causing the fires to spread quickly, but it has created conditions conducive to feeding fires -- such as drier air and plant life.
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Christmas tree fires cause about $17.5 million in direct property damage each year, while fires caused by decorations result in about $13.4 million in property damage, according to the National Fire Protection Association.
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Health concerns resulting from the fires have been overshadowed by tensions between Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who took office last year, and French President Emanuel Macron over how to deal with the fires.
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Although fires that start on furniture account for only 2733% of residential fires, they carry significantly higher odds than others for injury and death, researchers report in the American Journal of Public Health.
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Science has shown that one way to lessen the risk of huge, out-of-control fires is actually to allow regular natural fires, or purposeful controlled burns, set intentionally to improve forest health.
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EMBERS: The Flint Fires Verbatim Theatre Project toured neighborhoods with presentations based on residents' responses to the fires, which started with landlords torching rental properties after the real estate bubble burst in 2008.
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The forest has been hit with a record number of fires this year: More than 20143,000 fires have been reported, an 84 percent increase over the number at the same time last year.
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Population growth has meant more people on the roads — cars are a prime cause of fires — and developers are increasingly pushing past urban boundaries and building homes in wilderness areas prone to fires.
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Located in south-east NSW, an area which has experienced some of the most intense fires, Wildlife Rescue South Coast has been hard at work rescuing and rehabilitating animals affected by the fires.
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The California wildfire season officially began in May but the nine major fires that have started in the state over the past week marked the first widespread outbreak of intense fires this year.
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"There are several fires in the Pacific Northwest that have contributed to the smoke as well," said Mr. Apfel, who estimated that there were currently about 16 large fires in Washington and Oregon.
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The fire spread so quickly that dispatch operators "struggled to digest the multitude of reports" as countless small fires were reported and at least nine significant fires had merged into three major blazes.
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In a partnership with the Los Angeles Times, Descartes Labs runs a livestream of current fires in California and other West Coast states, but can report fires as far East as West Virginia.
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The month saw a spike ahead of the annual season when fires are typically more frequent: The state of Amazonas had 11,412 fires in August alone, compared to 16,587 in all of 2018.
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The full impact of the fires on indigenous tribes is still unknown, but almost all of Brazil's indigenous territories are in the Amazon, where over half of the fires still blazing are found.
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The trees have thick bark that make them typically good at surviving surface level fires, but they can't survive the more intense fires that move through the canopy, like this region has seen.
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In New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, more than 65 bush and grass fires were burning on Saturday, with the state's Rural Fire Service (RFS) placing an emergency warning on three fires.
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Nearly 80,000 fires have been registered across Brazil through Aug.
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Climate change has increased the frequency and severity of fires.
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No fires nearby and a safe environment for her child.
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Hurricanes and fires have occurred in the past, after all.
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President Donald Trump blamed poor forest management for the fires.
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So far, there haven't been any fires — just ruined phones.
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Katie Papvlich, so Roseanne fires off this horrible racist tweet.
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Winter is especially dangerous when it comes to house fires.
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For all the fires raging thru my community and beyond.
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Tomas brings up his rivet gun, fires through the metal.
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Both fires have been whipped up by hot dry winds.
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The fires have displaced more than 224,000 people, officials said.
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California is currently suffering from several devastating and deadly fires.
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A blaster that automatically creates and fires toilet paper spitballs.
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"As I understand, we have five fires," the mayor said.
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"Uh, there's seven days a week," de Lesseps fires back.
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Protesters set a dozen fires near the bridge, police said.
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And about 200 fires were set in one California city.
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Six large fires are now simultaneously burning around Southern California.
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" And a synapse fires and, "I could do this myself.
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But the material doesn't come without risks, such as fires.
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Demonstrators set fires in protest against the inauguration of Trump.
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And now she fires off banging tweet after banging tweet.
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Firefighters extinguished the biggest fires after working through the night.
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There are four fires in the L.A. area right now.
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About 14 seconds later, another officer fires a shotgun once.
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Those entities measure fires in all vehicles, not just Teslas.
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The buildings would be searched once the fires were out.
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There are no immediate fires for the ECB to fight.
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But even areas that haven't seen fires recently are vulnerable.
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With unusually dry pasture, the danger of bush fires looms.
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Fires often go without names if they are too small.
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"Little Fires Everywhere" 12 Celeste Ng (Penguin Press, $27) 9.
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Trees grow back when sustainably harvested or after forest fires.
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Follow our latest updates on the Kincade and Tick fires.
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About 2,150 of those inmates are authorized to fight fires.
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What can #GlobalForestWatch tell us about the #fires in #Brazil?
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Who's going to respond to car accidents and house fires?
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Just over half of the fires are in the Amazon.
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"It was pretty easy to put fires out," said Bailey.
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But the response to the fires has been strangely muted.
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In both places incomes were strained even before the fires.
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A line of watch fires stretched away into the night.
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We have reservoirs and lakes around all the main fires.
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Each year since then the number of fires has fallen.
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"Little Fires Everywhere" 9 Celeste Ng (Penguin Press, $27) 6.
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"We'll be fighting these fires for months," Edmund Blenkins said.
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Five of those fires started Thursday, and one began Friday.
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There are no reported fires currently in the Sierra Nevada.
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He wasn't somebody that ... I was covering fires and shootings.
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The fires have been fueled by strong Santa Ana winds.
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Several factors are at play in the fires this week.
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He estimated around 200 fires have broken out in total.
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The uninvolved third party fires, striking and killing the suspect.
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Authorities did not immediately release information about the fires' causes.
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Sometimes it's the tiniest spark that lights the biggest fires.
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So despite fewer fires this year, the risk remains high.
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Fires are growing more common and more severe in California.
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None of the 21 fires were more than 10% contained.
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There's no indication he's related to these fires at all.
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Raja then fires three shots in less than two seconds.
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Bernstein puts one on the floor and fires it up.
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Put out a bunch of small fires in the office.
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Abundant pine groves in the surrounding valleys fed its fires.
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I just had to evacuate my home from the fires.
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Its stripes extended faraway and was like smokes in fires.
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These tests also caused large fires, although no explosions happened.
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Both recorders are built to withstand fires and major impact.
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For years smouldering hazardous waste sparked fires among the rubbish.
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Government documents say other fires occurred while Kia was investigating.
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All fires are roughly the same temperature, Flannigan told Motherboard.
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Soon the raging fires and brutal violence come to them.
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Is there a shortage of water to fight the fires?
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Fires are often set by companies to clear the land.
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That increases the risk of fires caused by human activity.
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And we have had fires and divorces and other dramas!
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Did I sometimes light some fires I shouldn't have lit?
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There are 2067 major fires burning throughout California, authorities said.
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The largest of the two fires was 50 percent contained.
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Fires swept through Vitrolles in August 2016, scarring the landscape.
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"You don't have to have any forest fires," Trump said.
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My thoughts & prayers are with everyone affected by these fires.
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Soehn says natural fires are very rare in the park.
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Forests need fires to recycle nutrients and clear the understory.
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One of the reasons for those forest fires is economic.
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Yet the reasons for the fires have not gone away.
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The sluggish global economy is also dampening the inflationary fires.
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If she fires him, it's going to be real bad.
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He also casually talks about seeing almost daily car fires.
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The numbers: 140 fires are burning almost 2 million acres.
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And these fires were controlled, being created and used easily.
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I could almost feel the warmth of the barrel fires.
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Munsch, meanwhile, calls Hoffel into her office and fires her.
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Risko said his department doesn't often deal with fatal fires.
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Adam hears them coming, and fires at them in defense.
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She eventually fires up the stove, caramelizing apples in butter.
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But for Fires, it's just another day at the office.
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As of Wednesday, the massive fires had burned 160,000 acres.
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The technology firm is also fighting fires on other fronts.
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When it comes to fuel, McCarty says, fires are agnostic.
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Controversies are like fires, and he's played with them before.
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"Ongoing fires may see significant growth on Sunday," it said.
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Similarly scorching fires burned the family's home town of Fallujah.
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We can't stop winds and abolish vegetation and eliminate fires.
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We resolved to protect the neighborhood from any more fires.
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Dry conditions and strong winds have exacerbated the recent fires.
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They used fires widely to work the land into agriculture.
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In Newark, New Jersey, there were nearly two hundred fires.
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We don't know just how big those fires will become.
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Halsey, in the meantime, is putting out her own fires.
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"Sure," he fires back and goes in for the kill.
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The causes of both fires were unknown and under investigation.
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Cal Fire estimated the fires would be contained by Friday.
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Still, some 22 fires were burning across the northern state.
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The biggest fires are burning in the Napa wine country.
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The Tubbs and Atlas fires each cover about 603,000 acres.
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Back burns are fires deliberately lit to clear dry undergrowth.
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It survived the 1906 earthquake, and the fires that followed.
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The fires cost Indonesia $16 billion, according to the government.
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Natural tree oils in native eucalypt forests can fuel fires.
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It wasn't until about midday that fires started to escalate.
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That leaves a lot of dry vegetation to feed fires.
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It digs attack tunnels, and periodically fires rockets, into Israel.
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Fires at factories, slums and markets are common in Bangladesh.
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The fires have destroyed more than 1,000 structures since igniting.
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However, fires occurred over the years that damaged the home.
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The other three fires have burned about 5,000 acres combined.
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But the scale of this season's fires have overwhelmed authorities.
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However, Bolsonaro accused nongovernmental organizations of purposefully starting the fires.
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The fires in the Amazon rainforest have sparked global outrage.
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Fires have broken out on seven of Walmart's solar roofs.
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About 10,000 new fires started in the last week alone.
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The safety commission investigated fires in more than 20 states.
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The officer fires from around the corner of a column.
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Brazil has deployed its military to help fight the fires.
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On Thursday, he acknowledged that farmers may be starting fires.
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That's nearly double the total number of fires in 2018.
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On Friday, Bolsonaro said the army would fight the fires.
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Have other customers (homeowners or businesses) experienced fires like this?
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Farmers and ranchers routinely use fires to clear the forest.
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The smoke from the fires could be seen from space.
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Perhaps, a regional approach to managing forest fires is needed.
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Daily Caller cancels Milo's column, fires its opinion editor too.
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The pilgrimage has frequently been hit by stampedes and fires.
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Here are five things to know about the rainforest fires.
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Smoke rose from fires at various spots across the field.
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"Battling these relentless fires requires a Herculean effort," California Gov.
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This deforestation has led to uncontrollable fires in the Amazon.
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No cause has been determined for any of the fires.
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"Battling these relentless fires requires a Herculean effort," Brown wrote.
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Strong winds makes the fires unpredictable and hard to control.
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The orange specks aren't just orange specks but small fires.
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Mickey then sets his sights on Bill Cosby and fires.
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Portuguese authorities have also said the fires were intentionally set.
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When they meet, both fires will starve, wither, and die.
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News Japan, nobody was hurt in any of the fires.
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You're always going to have fires, but they're getting bigger.
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They also prepare food to be cooked over open fires.
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In Sweden, many have been evacuated due to the fires.
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We don't need these camera tricks to see fires everywhere.
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Blustery Santa Ana winds literally added fuel to the fires.
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The fires have destroyed more than 27,22 structures since igniting.
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The conditions are expected to help any fires spread quickly.
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The emails give insight into the periodic fires that Mrs.
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"Little Fires Everywhere" 26 Celeste Ng (Penguin Press, $21) 27.
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So the person in our house who prevents fires etc.
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Then read "Seven Fires," by Francis Mallmann and Peter Kaminsky.
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An investigation won't begin until all the fires are out.
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The lines heat up and cause car fires, he said.
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Even the worst fires clear the way for new growth.
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Because those are tinders that can turn into big fires.
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Russia has been the scene of numerous such deadly fires.
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Fires on boats tend to start in the engine area.
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In 2019 alone, more than 80,000 fires have been recorded.
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Suppression of natural fires has allowed dry vegetation to accumulate.
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Illegal loggers and miners set fires to cover their tracks.
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But fires burned here even before there was a city.
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Here are some images from the fires over the weekend.
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The causes of all three fires were still under investigation.
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Your employer fires you, and your medical coverage is discontinued.
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Firefighters fear that strong winds may merge the scattered fires.
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At his most rebellious, he set fires in hotel rooms.
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There are 17 fires simultaneously scorching parts of the state.
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Second, the fires could burn up larger sections of forest.
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Global warming is expected to contribute to more frequent fires.
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Paradoxically, increasing logging on forests can actually increase forest fires.
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Then there were the fires so nothing is normal yet.
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There had been no fires when they went to bed.
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Nearly 222,133 fires have been recorded this year through Aug.
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The right side shows the forest calcined by the fires.
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I've covered gruesome events around the world — earthquakes, hurricanes, fires.
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But the fires have brought a thick haze of smoke.
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"The firemen said there were little fires everywhere," Lexie says.
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JW: Well, whatever, he just, he fires off some comments.
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Once dry, Florida's peat soils ignited in smoldering muck fires.
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Arsonists have been blamed for many of Portugal's recent fires.
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Firefighters from several departments arrived and put out the fires.
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Was it 200 fires that were set down there, James?
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Austria, Australia fires, 22000: Here's what you need to know.
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Fires now ring much of Australia's east and southeastern coasts.
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A fiery twister formed in the fires on Kangaroo Island.
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Sometimes firefighters fight fires, and other times, they deliver babies!
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And the shade all through the country after the fires.
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None, however, have died fighting fires thanks to their training.
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Forest fires also are becoming a worsening problem, he said.
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"There's a tremendous effort fighting these fires," Brown told reporters.
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"The intensity and frequency of fires is insane," said Wexler.
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The fires from the Impact still smoldered in their craters.
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Fewer Santa Anas in October should mean fewer fires, right?
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"The Bureau rarely fires agents," a colleague reassures him, unkindly.
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"The government says that forest fires are cyclical," Solon said.
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All the fires were at "advice" level, the lowest alert.
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Victoria had 40 fires with 13 "watch and act" alerts.
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It's getting warmer, which means increasingly ripe conditions for fires.
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Those fires in California, there's no reason to have them.
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If they would clean that out, you wouldn't have fires.
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The latest: See our updated interactive map of the fires.
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The scale of the Australian fires has dwarfed those blazes.
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The police arrested 3,700 people, and 1,000 fires were reported.
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Even hotter temperatures are forecast, increasing the threat of fires.
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At least 28 people have been killed in the fires.
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The bush fires are producing choking smoke and toxic pollution.
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And weather conditions can change the course of fires quickly.
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The fires are so large they're generating their own weather.
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New fires had started, and others had broken containment lines.
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VICE: How much longer are these fires expected to continue?
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We were horrified as mega fires ravaged California and Australia.
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As Australia's fires have shown, that future is already here.
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"It's costing much more (to fight these fires)," he said.
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"So the two fires are not connected whatsoever," he added.
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One of Monday's fires was being investigated as a homicide.
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For internet speeds, the Fires were reasonably fast at downloads.
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More often, it is the player who fires the coach.
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These political reactions are more terrifying than the fires themselves.
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For example, fires are not inherently harmful to a forest.
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The waste left by forest fires has an undeniable beauty.
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Firefighters put out 35 fires in Andover, town officials said.
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And I know of a few whose fires are out.
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But the fires were counted as one event by NOAA.
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Fires single shots that deal high damage when fully charged.
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And the largest of those fires smoldered on into 2018.
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The fires leave a charred wasteland in areas they pass.
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The fires get close to, and sometimes overwhelm, people's homes.
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Since the onset of offsets, fires have posed a risk.
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"Fires are more a part of our ordinary experience," Gov.
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The other two fires took five more hours to extinguish.
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The other two fires took five more hours to extinguish.
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Read more: Bolsonaro is spreading conspiracy theories about the fires.
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About 3% of the fires occurred on oil palm plantations.
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Researchers recorded more than 195,000 fires in Brazil this year.
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This year, researchers recorded more than 195,000 fires in Brazil.
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"Fires themselves are also getting harder to fight," said Trouet.
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"There are so many large fires going on," said Marlon.
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Why are black church fires associated with acts of hate?
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Nearly 100 fires are burning across New South Wales state.
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He believed the recent fires also hold another larger significance.
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Calls summoning firefighters to put out fires at nearby properties.
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Why it matters: Thousands of people have fled the fires.
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Government figures show some 20,000 fires occur annually in Dhaka.
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Fires have been raging for months in New South Wales.
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Fire authorities said on Wednesday 99 fires were still burning.
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The island has also experienced forest fires of unprecedented intensity.
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Along the Central Coast, several fires had residents on edge.
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Fires have also devastated the Western United States this summer.
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All that's as valuable as covering fires in Des Moines.
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Now they are seeking the same for last year's fires.
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The small hunting fires were vital for sustaining wild species.
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The exact causes of the fires were not immediately known.
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Early the next morning, the president fires off a tweet.
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A spate of devastating fires struck California in recent years.
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The Perdix's motor fires up, driving the tiny machine forward.
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A young child plays around the oil fires of Qayyarah.
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So the impact of the fires is not all immediate.
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Still, two locations with SolarCity installations experienced rooftop fires anyway.
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Hundreds have died this year between the heat and fires.
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" — Alexis Tsipras, Prime Minister of Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said officials "are doing everything humanly possible to try and tackle these fires," but "what concerns us is that there are fires occurring simultaneously.
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"These include the unusual coincidence of severe cyclones in the U.S. and Japan, and devastating forest fires in California," he said, adding that climate change appears to be making such large fires more common.
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In recent years, ecologists have noted an uptick in permafrost fires in Alaska, Canada, and Siberia, which have been attributed to land use shifts, human-caused climate change, and upsettingly, humans setting more fires.
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No one yet knows the cause of the more than a dozen fires ablaze around California, but fires start where humans meet the wild forests, where people build for solitude or space or beauty.
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The fund launched in 2003 and has since granted more than $22 million to support relief and recovery efforts in the aftermath of fires like the Camp and Woolsey fires, according to its website.
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"As of November 2018, no fewer than seven Walmart stores had experienced fires due to Tesla's solar systems — including the four fires described above and three others that had occurred earlier," the lawsuit says.
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RMS, the risk modeling firm, Thursday put economic losses of the Northern California fires at a range of between $3 billion to $6 billion but it could rise since the fires still are burning.
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"It creates this vicious cycle where we're spending all this money to fight fires, and that takes money away from the preventative work that could stop those fires in the first place," said Knight.
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Also, CNBC last week quoted workers as saying Tesla's factory paint shop in Fremont, California, has had several fires in the last four years, and the fires causes more problems than Tesla let on.
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Just one week into September, fires were banned in Queensland and parts of New South Wales due to catastrophic conditions predicted in the area that could lead to bush fires according to the Guardian.
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Police and firefighters who responded to the fires are suing Arkema in a Texas county court, claiming negligence led to the fires and caused the first responders "serious bodily injuries" when they inhaled smoke.
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Thomas Smith, professor at geography at the London School of Economics, said "there is an increased confidence" that the Arctic fires are indeed peat fires burning down into the soil, judging by their behavior.
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On assignment to cover the fires, a USA Today reporter midmorning Wednesday looked to Waze for an alternative route to the Getty Center museum, after fires had closed the normal route, Interstate 405 north.
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The intensity of the fires has appeared to increase as well; the fires in 19603 were among the most destructive in California's history, leaving 46 people dead and causing nearly $12 billion in damage.
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Laurance, a tropical conservation biologist, said this year's forest fires had raised questions around whether the Amazon was getting closer to a tipping point that could irreversibly damage its ecosystem and bring more fires.
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Finally, tell us more about what you think: In news media coverage of the California fires, you have likely learned that many celebrities live in or near the places where the fires have raged.
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The fires are the result of two dangerous trends, explains Grist's Eric Holthaus: more people moving to fire-prone areas and hotter, drier weather — in part thanks to climate change — that helps fires grow.
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Evidence of the fires also comes by way of a map created by the European Union's satellite program, Copernicus, that shows smoke from the fires spreading all along Brazil to the east Atlantic coast.
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You can see the brown plume of smoke from the fires in this NASA satellite image from Sunday: These fires are burning just as Australia is emerging from its hottest, driest year on record.
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There were still 85 fires burning across the state of New South Wales on Thursday, with 30 of them yet to be contained, while 19 fires were alight in Victoria, according to fire authorities.
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Following are some highlights of what is happening in the bushfire crisis: * There were 82 fires burning across New South Wales early Friday, 30 uncontained, and several fires in Victoria, according to fire authorities.
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A hotter world means drier vegetation and bigger fires, and this season's fires are behaving in astonishing ways: Instead of a mild bushfire burning here and there, now the conflagrations are leveling entire ecosystems.
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Destructive in this case means that instead of being neutral, fires become a source of carbon emissions, driving more warming and exacerbating the conditions that are making fires more prevalent in the first place.
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The fires show the potential to wipe out species Australia's koala population has been one of the hardest hit by the fires, with government officials estimating 30 percent may have died in the blazes.
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So far the fires have destroyed 39,770 square miles, an area more than ten times the size of that burned in either the California wildfires of 2018 or last year's fires in the Amazon.
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"If the frequency and intensity of fires begins to change, then you're probably going to change the character of the vegetation as well—toward one that is adapted to more frequent fires," says Prentice.
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California has 11 large fires, BC has nearly 600 wildfires As 11 large fires raged in California, there were hotspots of unhealthy air quality in certain parts of the state -- especially near the wildfires.
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Such fires caused a yearly average of 80 civilian deaths, 860 civilian injuries and $235 million in property damage during that time period, though they account for a relatively small percentage of total fires.
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In Ventura/Santa Barbara (Thomas fire), Los Angeles ( Skirball, Rye and Creek fires), and San Diego (Lilac fire), Santa Ana winds have been blamed for literally fanning the flames of smaller fires into conflagrations.
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First, human activity is definitely making these fires worse: People are building in vulnerable areas, they are igniting most of these fires, and humans are driving climate change, which makes fire conditions more severe.
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"Our courts have ordered the government to prevent this and commit more resources to extinguishing fires, and to name and prosecute the plantations where fires occurred in the past," Rompas told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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The jury also convicted Steven Hammond for a 2006 blaze that prosecutors said began when he started several back fires, violating a burn ban, to save his winter feed after lightning started numerous fires nearby.
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Vehicle fires are a somewhat common occurrence following a crash, and most fires involving Teslas have happened after violent wrecks (or in a few cases, some of the cars have reignited after an initial fire).
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In fact, fires are causing snow to melt earlier in the season across the western US in a cycle that triggers more fires, according to a paper published in May in the journal Nature Communications.
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TV footage showed protesters, who streamed into the Kowloon hotel and shopping artery of Nathan Road on Sunday, setting fires to street barricades and squirting petrol from plastic bottles on to fires at subway entrances.
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Lethal fires have included the Tubbs and Nuns fires in Sonoma County, the Atlas Fire in Napa County, the Cascade Fire in Yuba County and the Redwood Fire in Mendocino County, the Sacramento Bee reported.
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The recall came just weeks after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened a preliminary investigation in August after five complaints of fires in the seat belt component, including three vehicles destroyed by fires.
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Understanding the Fires It's telling that the word "ecology" is nowhere to be found in Ian Frazier's heart-wrenching account of the extensive prairie fires last year ("The Day the Great Plains Burned," November 5th).
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After all, just this Tuesday local investigators announced the arrest of a 16-year-old teenage boy on suspicion of starting at least two fires—and maybe as many as four fires—in Osaka Prefecture.
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The source told Reuters on Monday that Samsung was able to replicate the fires during its investigation and that the cause for the fires could not be explained by hardware design or software-related matters.
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Embassies have also been told to post to their social media pages with information such as that forest fires happen every year in the Amazon and that the current fires are not out of control.
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"Satellite images no longer detect burning or reactivated fires," said Cinthia Asin, an official for environmental issues for the provincial government of Santa Cruz, a farming province in eastern Bolivia hard hit by the fires.
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There are currently no fires in the Northern Territory, where Uluru is, but there are some fires in Tasmania and in Western Australia, where Perth is, but all three areas are still considered largely safe.
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"It (fires) will continue to go on until we can get some decent rain that can deal with some of the fires that have been burning for many, many months," Morrison told reporters on Thursday.
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Though it is accurate in pinpointing the location of fires and the size of Australia compared to the US, it isn&apost giving you a proper understanding of the scale of the individual fires.3.
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For context, Australia's fires have burned more than twice as much land as the summer's Amazon blazes and are part of a terrifying weather trend raises the risk of more large fires in the future.
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"Satellite images no longer detect burning or reactivated fires," said Cinthia Asin, an official for environmental issues for the provincial government of Santa Cruz, a farming province in eastern Bolivia hard-hit by the fires.
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Various Small Fires, Los Angeles Like Babin and Tsou, Various Small Fires owner Esther Kim Varet participates in several fairs a year and has been working toward landing a spot under the Art Basel umbrella.
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Officials are also fighting the Rye, Lilac, Skirball, and Liberty Fires.
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"Fires running through a community like that, it's different," Porter added.
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California power companies reported outages minutes before the deadly fires began.
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After surviving deadly fires, evacuees are now contracting norovirus at shelters.
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More than 3,000 people were killed in the earthquake and fires.
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Electric vehicles aren't unique in experiencing fires involving lithium-ion batteries.
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He fires two shots but is unwittingly tangential to the murder.
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For the past century fires have tended to be quickly suppressed.
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""Fires are getting larger, and they're burning deeper into the ground.
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Something about ash from all the fires blocking out the sun?
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The second thing to know is they occasionally start house fires.
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President Trump fires back against his critics about his Russia meeting.
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Forest fires are common in Greece during the hot, dry summers.
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California officials have determined PG&E's equipment caused multiple 2017 fires.
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The United Arab Emirates has witnessed five skyscraper fires since 2015.
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Forest fires, he argues, decimate 14 percent of Lebanese trees annually.
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Bastion transforms into a mobile tank that fires high-damage shells.
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The fires spared Parton's famed Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge.
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But we're told Briana fires back ... jealously isn't in her playbook.
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More than a half-dozen large fires are burning across Colorado.
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Over the course of five days, riots, protests, and fires ensued.
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But if he fires you, he might not hire a replacement.
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And Alaska isn't the only place where fires are ripping through.
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Ford said it has reports of 2000 fires but no injuries.
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Fires broke out the following day near Modi'in in central Israel.
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Fire is 'everywhere' Fires burned perilously close to roads and homes.
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Absolutely, and that's why Bob fires him (ha) on the spot.
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Small fires were burning near the vat as well, Murphy said.
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When the fires started had seventy percent of his fruit in.
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Since September, the unprecedented fires have razed over 27 million acres.
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"Fires have been growing," Thom Porter told CNBC's "Power Lunch " Thursday.
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"Yes, I prefer to be a YouTuber," do Val fires back.
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Fires have erupted this week across California, forcing thousands to evacuate.
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The rich aren't fighting their own fires, for the most part.
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With active fires raging in California, Paramount has canceled the event.
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Windy, dry conditions also flared up smaller fires around the region.
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"We're going to have the fires no matter what," she said.
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The fires in areas that had undergone prescribed were less intense.
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The rituals of practice pour fuel on the fires of aggression.
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This could include forest fires, major stadium events, and VIP travel.
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A hard breath of air into the horn fires the weapon.
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BY NIGHT the fires of Tangshan burn and the air stinks.
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Nixle alerts about the fires in Santa Rosa from Sunday night.
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"Our work will continue for months after the fires have ceased."
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After winning the tournament, Parziale took a leave from fighting fires.
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Immediately after, they were summoned to put out two more fires.
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It was not clear whether sources other than fires were contributing.
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Officials said the cause of the fires is still under investigation.
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By comparison, 26,500 fires burned during the same period last year.
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There were a total of 217 fires reported on Jan. 17.
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The 2017 fires followed five years of extreme drought in California.
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"Its footprint took in all those fires and more," he said.
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Environmentalists believe those deforesting are the same people starting the fires.
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True, there have been fires in Canada's boreal forest for ages.
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When it fires you need to stand to account for it.
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Recently, fires have been burning in the Amazon, Australia, and California.
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They fight, cook food over open fires, and get very drunk.
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The causes of the fires are still under investigation, Giordano said.
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Eight deaths have been attributed to the fires in Mendocino County.
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And battery fires do not only affect electric bikes and scooters.
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Hundreds of thousands of acres were destroyed between the three fires.
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Fires ripped through the southern island of Tasmania, destroying ancient forests.
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It's often difficult to attribute fires to human activity or lightning.
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Or, apparently, to maintain the equipment that allegedly caused those fires.
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Fires are like a checks and balance system on all that.
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Even as they destroyed trees, fires also helped the forests themselves.
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Shocked, he accidentally fires the gun, shooting himself in the process.
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NTSB officials have not given a reason for the battery fires.
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Moon fueled the fires by writing lyrics full of sexy innuendo.
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"These fires are going to be happening more often," noted Gollner.
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Why have so many fires burned in North America this year?
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"Fires don't burn bullets," said retired Scottsdale police detective TJ Jiran.
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"She just fires missiles at me," Disick says during the clip.
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Officials have estimated the fires have caused $500 million in damages.
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Two homes were destroyed elsewhere in the state in other fires.
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Fires from the lava have burned down 35 structures — mostly homes.
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Speaking of dumpster fires, Amazon tried making a phone once, too.
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Topics: Apple Watch 3, London fires Uber, Jimmy Kimmel, brand marketing.
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In some regions, the fires are inching closer to uncontacted tribes.
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They might catch fire (remember?), and fires and planes don't mix.
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Critically, it's important to say that before Trump actually fires Mueller.
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In Alberta many facilities are built with protection against such fires.
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Fires are a natural part of the ecosystem in many forests.
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The bright yellow spots are where the fires are actively burning.
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Four more fires are raging from San Bernardino to Santa Clarita.
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The fires have also destroyed more than 2,000 homes and businesses.
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He told us about the ways humans are making fires worse.
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It can also cut the risk of fires and promote biodiversity.
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Ashley Fires accused Deen of assaulting her off-camera in Kink.
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Prosecutors said they set fires to cover up evidence of poaching.
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And this is what&aposs providing the fuel for these fires.
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Several firemen were hurt while trying to put out the fires.
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But not when the roads are clear because of nearby fires.
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Twin fires in Mendocino and Lake counties had burned 16 homes.
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Arson suspect linked to five of California&aposs fires , officials say.
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The Taliban and government declared cease-fires independent of the other.
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Emergency workers warned the strong winds threaten to escalate the fires.
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All three of the fires continued to burn through on Friday.
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We have to do something different to prevent these catastrophic fires.
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Fires surrounded them on the road and the sky turned black.
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It also monitors natural phenomena, like sunspots, fires, floods, and typhoons.
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They ripped down the gates and set fires in the street.
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Cal Fire estimated the fires would be contained by Oct. 20.
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They start controlled fires to mimic the ecology of the past.
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The fires single-handedly tripled the country's annual emissions last year.
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Instead I was sent out to cover shootings, stabbings and fires.
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Rice said fires are always a threat, especially during the summer.
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This map shows active fires detected via satellite in Northern California.
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Only one in four fires started by fireworks is even reported.
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The fires' smoky clouds could be seen from the Spanish border.
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And restarts are dangerous periods, as fires and explosions can occur.
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Better to learn these specialists in the fires of online play.
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Santa Ana winds are notorious for stoking fall fires in California.
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They have blamed the "violent attackers" for setting fires to homes.
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Amid the melee a gunshot fires, hitting Carl in the eye.
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Officials set up emergency responder command centers to handle the fires.
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Jaime Rodriguez said, of inmates setting fires in two areas inside.
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Restarts are an especially dangerous period when fires and explosions occur.
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On Joanne, she fires back, just like John Wayne would have.
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Old fires have scarred the tarmac of the now quiet streets.
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What is unprecedented is the number of fires that are happening.
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We'll be better off in important ways if Trump fires Bannon.
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Protesters set fires and burned a "Make America Great Again" hat.
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Hardly the kind of extreme makeover that fires up the fanbase.
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The region's health system has also been weakened by the fires.
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They begin with a failure to learn lessons from previous fires.
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Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, toured areas hit by fires Saturday.
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So far the fires have torched an estimated 313,000 acres. 4.
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Baltimore will see more Freddie Grays — and the fires that follow.
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"Each sniper fires only at orders of commanders," he tells CNN.
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Protesters clashed with police and set 70 fires in the city.
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Hong Kong, Australia fires, llamas: Here's what you need to know.
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Bringing such fast-moving fires under control is difficult and dangerous.
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The fires have been fanned by strong winds and scorching temperatures.
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Small fires are burning even now as the weather remains hot.
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The fires last year only ended when the rainy season arrived.
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All we can do is put out fires before anyone notices.
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Pimlott said most of the fires started at about 10 p.m.
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Thankfully, the fires were outside, so the factory building wasn't damaged.
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A police officer fires a shot that appears to strike him.
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One woman died in a car crash while fleeing the fires.
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KB Rick does not build fires in the mountains in Argentina.
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In addition, the center's landscaping was designed with fires in mind.
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Edison equipment was damaged in the Rye, Creek and Liberty fires.
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The rising temperatures are leading to less moisture and more fires.
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It used to be rare for fires to reach this threshold.
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Response teams were trying to rescue people trapped in the fires.
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The agencies are also investigating other crashes and battery fires involvingvehicles.
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Over 550 fires have been reported from the state so far.
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Fires across the West Wildfires continue to plague other Western states.
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They're also not the only ones fighting fires in the Amazon.
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Such fires are a major cause of deforestation in the Amazon.
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About 10,000 new fires have started in the last week alone.
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"The vast majority of these fires are human-lit," Poirier said.
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More than half of those fires occurred in the Amazon region.
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The Brazilian military have been dispatched to deal with the fires.
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The fires are coming from people farming and logging the rainforest.
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Fires in the Amazon rainforest, during the summer months, aren't new.
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The earth is being scorched, and fires continue to burn relentlessly.
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He's in-turn blamed the fires on environmental groups without evidence.
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Those fires resulted in store closings and millions in lost merchandise.
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State media reported fires are now under control at both facilities.
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And it will mean fewer stories about fires in the Bronx.
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Men chopped wood to make fires for cooking in tin drums.
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Zinke is right that America's forests are overgrown, fueling huge fires.
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But our response to fires alone cannot address extreme wildfire behavior.
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Had it been, the fires might have burned much more widely.
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We've been through fires before, but nothing as bad as this.
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" NAACP President Derrick Johnson labeled the fires acts of "domestic terrorism.
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Fires, even large ones, have always been a part of nature.
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Fires have been atypical in Siberia, with hundreds of separate blazes.
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Liam fires off on Twitter every time something pisses him off.
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The drought has created a second disaster: field and forest fires.
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