Wildfires Threaten
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Temperature rising: 2024 becomes Earth's hottest year, surpasses 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels
World | Jan 11, 2025, 06:14 PM ISTThe year 2024 has been adjudged the warmest in the history of Earth as it becomes the first calendar year to exceed 1.5 C above its pre-industrial levels. This comes in the backdrop of wildfires ravaging Los Angeles, California.
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Wildfires wreak havoc in several parts of Los Angeles, California declares emergency | See pics
World | Jan 10, 2025, 11:43 AM ISTWildfires have wreaked havoc in Southern California, destroying the most picturesque neighbourhoods in the Los Angeles area since the fire has continued to grow. To cope up with the situation, Southern California has declared emergency.
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Wildfire UPDATE: New round of winds fuel fury of Northern California
World | Aug 22, 2021, 01:01 PM ISTThe Caldor Fire in the northern Sierra Nevada already destroyed dozens of homes, and authorities on Friday closed down a 46-mile (74-km) stretch of Interstate 50, the main route between the state capital of Sacramento and Lake Tahoe on the Nevada state line.
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Explosive California wildfires could burn into December
World | Aug 21, 2021, 09:25 AM ISTCalifornia has already surpassed the acreage burned at this point last year, which ended up setting the record. Now it’s entering a period when powerful winds have often driven the deadliest blazes.
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California wildfire season sets records, more damage expected
World | Aug 20, 2021, 01:55 PM ISTCalifornia has already surpassed the acreage burned at this point last year, which ended up setting the record.
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Wildfires in Algeria leave 42 dead, including 25 soldiers
India | Aug 11, 2021, 08:01 AM 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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Huge California fire grows as heat spikes again across state
World | Aug 04, 2021, 08:54 AM 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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Mass blackout in California amid raging wildfires
World | Oct 27, 2019, 07:00 PM ISTA second massive blaze in suburban Los Angeles termed the Tick Fire had charred 4,615 acres and was 55 per cent contained as of Saturday evening.
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California wildfires: Death toll rises to 71, Trump to visit state today
World | Nov 17, 2018, 02:11 PM ISTAuthorities confirmed a new death toll of 71 and say they are trying to locate 1,011 people even as they stressed that not all are believed missing.
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Wildfires threaten thousands of homes in Northern California
World | Aug 20, 2012, 02:44 PM ISTTehama County, Aug 20 : Thousands of people have been told to leave their homes as a wildfire burning in thick forest threatened rural communities in Northern California. The fire that started late morning on