Wildfire
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Wildfires in Algeria leave 42 dead, including 25 soldiers
India | August 11, 2021 8:01 ISTPresident Abdelmadjid Tebboune tweeted that the soldiers were “martyrs” who saved 100 people from the fires in two areas of Kabyle, the region that is home to the North African nation’s Berber population.
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One dead, over 40 injured in wildfires near Athens
World | August 07, 2021 10:52 ISTAt least 44 people were transferred to hospitals due to injuries sustained in the fires in Attica, Peloponnese and Evia, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Friday.
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‘We lost Greenville’: Wildfire decimates California town
World | August 06, 2021 7:38 ISTThe Dixie Fire, swollen by bone-dry vegetation and 40 mph (64 kph) gusts, raged through the northern Sierra Nevada community of Greenville on Wednesday.
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Huge California fire grows as heat spikes again across state
World | August 04, 2021 8:54 ISTFirefighters saved homes Monday in small northern California community of Greenville near Plumas National Forest as strong winds stoked Dixie Fire, which grew to over 395 square miles across Plumas and Butte counties.
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Person suspected of starting forest fires in Turkey arrested
World | August 01, 2021 7:00 ISTWildfires continued to cause devastation in Turkey as the President declared the affected regions "disaster areas."
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California wildfire advances as heat wave blankets US West
World | July 11, 2021 7:09 ISTOn Friday, Death Valley National Park in California recorded a staggering high of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54 Celsius) and could reach the same high on Saturday.
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Doctors warn of burns from asphalt as heatwave hits US West
World | June 15, 2021 8:07 ISTThe burn care centre has been partnering with community groups to urge people around swimming pools to wear flip-flops and distributing them to vulnerable populations to try to prevent foot burns.
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COVID: Digvijaya Singh, Harsimrat Badal, other politicos test positive
News | April 16, 2021 17:40 ISTAs COVID-19 cases spread across India like wildfire, several politicos on April 16 tested positive.
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NDRF, IAF choppers continue to battle wildfire in Nagaland's Dzukou valley
India | January 02, 2021 11:28 ISTThe wildfire broke out in Dzukou range in which the majestic Dzukou valley, a tourist hot spot in Nagaland is located, on Tuesday afternoon. On Friday, authorities had deployed an Indian Air Force Mi-17 V5 helicopter for the firefighting mission at the Dzuko valley, along with a C-130J Hercules aircraft.
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Utility says its equipment may have sparked California blaze
World | October 27, 2020 11:33 ISTSouthern California Edison said its equipment may have sparked a fast-moving wildfire that forced evacuation orders for some 100,000 people and seriously injured two firefighters on Monday as powerful winds across the state prompted power to be cut to hundreds of thousands to prevent just such a possibility.
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Epic scale of California wildfires continues to grow
World | October 06, 2020 9:55 ISTThe staggering scale of California’s wildfires reached another milestone Monday: A single fire surpassed 1 million acres.
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Record-breaking California wildfires surpass 4 million acres
World | October 05, 2020 7:06 ISTIn a year that has already brought apocalyptic skies and smothering smoke to the West Coast, California set a grim new record Sunday when officials announced that the wildfires of 2020 have now scorched a record 4 million acres — in a fire season that is far from over.
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Enormous California wildfire threatens desert homes near LA
World | September 22, 2020 7:10 ISTAn enormous wildfire that churned through mountains northeast of Los Angeles and into the Mojave Desert was still threatening homes on Monday and was one of more than two dozen major fires burning across California.
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Firefighters battle exhaustion along with wildfire flames
World | September 19, 2020 7:54 ISTThey work 50 hours at a stretch and sleep on gymnasium floors. Exploding trees shower them with embers. They lose track of time when the sun is blotted out by smoke, and they sometimes have to run for their lives from advancing flames.
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Trump again ignores climate change as wildfires' cause, says ‘Don’t think science knows’
World | September 15, 2020 7:44 ISTWith the smell of California wildfires in the air, President Donald Trump on Monday ignored the scientific consensus that climate change is playing a central role in historic West Coast infernos and renewed his unfounded claim that failure to rake forest floors and clear dead timber is mostly to blame.
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‘There was no fighting this fire,’ California survivor says
World | September 12, 2020 10:13 ISTJohn Sykes built his life around his cabin in the dense woods of Northern California. He raised his two children there, expanded it and improved it over time and made it resilient to all kinds of disaster except fire.
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Firefighters overtaken by flames in California mountains
World | September 09, 2020 8:19 ISTMore than a dozen California firefighters trying to protect a fire station in rugged mountains were overrun by flames Tuesday, and several were hurt. Elsewhere, military helicopters rescued more than 150 people stranded in a burning forest.
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California avoids major power outages as wildfires rage
World | September 07, 2020 13:33 ISTRescuers in military helicopters airlifted 207 people to safety over the weekend after an explosive wildfire trapped them in a popular camping area in California’s Sierra National Forest, one of dozens of fires burning amid record-breaking temperatures that strained the state’s electrical grid and for a time threatened power outages for millions.
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Weather slows California wildfires; thousands allowed home
World | August 29, 2020 9:04 ISTCalifornia wildfires were slowly being corralled Friday as cooler, humid weather and reinforcements aided firefighters and tens of thousands of people were allowed back home after days of death and destruction.
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Redwoods survive wildfire at California’s oldest state park
World | August 25, 2020 7:29 ISTWhen a massive wildfire swept through California’s oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old and among the tallest living things on Earth, may finally have succumbed.
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