Several of the blazes were largely contained on Thursday as hundreds have battled the blazes on the ground and in the air.
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Here's a look at just how bad the blazes have scarred the country so far: By the numbers: About 2,700 firefighters were battling the blazes as of Sunday.
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More than 21989,000 firefighters were deployed to fight the blazes.
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President Trump declined to connect the blazes to climate change.
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The cause of the blazes have yet to be determined.
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More than 60 blazes are burning across the Western U.S.
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The blazes destroyed 1,600 bales of hay valued at $20,000.
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Hot, dry conditions are fueling blazes in several Western states.
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It is not clear how any of the blazes began.
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They say the blazes are threatening more than 350 buildings.
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More than 50 smaller blazes also burning out of control.
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Mandatory evacuations were ordered after blazes broke out late Sunday.
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On Monday, five big blazes were raging across the state.
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The blazes have destroyed seven homes and threaten 210,153 others.
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The blazes have destroyed seven homes and threaten 22019,26 others.
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One of those blazes, the Woolsey Fire, killed three people.
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Logging won't end the blazes that are sweeping the West.
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Smoke from the blazes covers nearly 70% of the country.
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Some blazes even broke out within the Anchorage city limits.
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The blazes destroyed the resort buildings and damaged snow equipment.
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Here are five things to know about the deadly blazes.
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The scale of the Australian fires has dwarfed those blazes.
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The blazes keep burning and the bad keeps getting worse.
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Three volunteer firefighters have so far died battling the blazes.
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Scientists fear the blazes could permanently transform the fragile rainforest.
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The Camp Fire is one of four blazes plaguing the state.
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The deadly heat was also hastening separate blazes across the region.
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Meanwhile, fire officials are still bracing for more blazes this year.
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Two blazes are encroaching on several towns that surround Clear Lake.
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More than 13,000 firefighters are battling the blazes across the state.
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More that 10,000 firefighters are fighting 15 blazes across Northern California.
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The rate of Galaxy Note7 battery blazes is 1 in 25,000.
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It's a hazard for firefighters, causing drier brush and larger blazes.
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With single-minded focus, he seeks out the most dangerous blazes.
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Other schools have preemptively closed out of fear of more blazes.
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The smoke from the blazes cloaked Santiago in a thick haze.
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Firefighters expect to contain many of the blazes by week's end.
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Crews also are battling blazes in eastern Washington and southwest Oregon.
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Fifteen of the state's 20 largest blazes have burned since 2000.
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Fires have been atypical in Siberia, with hundreds of separate blazes.
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Increased temperatures boost the odds for fire weather, and consequently, blazes.
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The twin blazes have charred 470 square miles (1,217 square kilometers).
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It was one of the deadliest blazes in the state's history.
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Government data recorded 2 blazes, compared to just six on Aug.
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He has already deployed the military to help combat the blazes.
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Despite these risks, there are tremendous economic pressures behind the blazes.
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New evacuation orders have been issued as the blazes resist containment.
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The blazes not only seem to be getting bigger, but faster.
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Government data recorded 290 blazes, compared to just six on Aug.
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The blazes terrorized congregants at the historically black houses of worship.
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The blazes are so big they generate their own hellish weather.
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What in blazes is going on with these swing state polls?
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Firefighters are nearly helpless against blazes of this intensity, he says.
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Fire-generated thunderstorms have appeared over blazes in two different places.
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And awards season blazes on, at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
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There were also about 9,000 firefighters battling the blazes statewide, he added.
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At least three firefighters were injured while fighting the blazes last week.
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As Jackson falls deeper into addiction, Ally blazes a path toward superstardom.
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The company forecasts its liabilities from the blazes could exceed $30 billion.
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Williams had served as CEO since March 2017, before the fatal blazes.
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This year, California and Portugal have been among places suffering deadly blazes.
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The particular problem this year is the dispersed nature of the blazes.
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In Tennessee, firefighters are currently battling nearly 70 blazes across 16,000 acres.
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In all, more than 14,000 firefighters are battling major blazes throughout California.
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She blazes through battlefields with a shield that can deflect machine guns.
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More than 11,000 firefighters continue to battle the blazes across the state.
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But dozens of horses perished in December after blazes in Los Angeles.
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California's wine country will take years to recover from the deadly blazes.
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About 11,000 firefighters from 17 states and Australia helped battle the blazes.
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There are 14,000 firefighters from California and other states fighting the blazes.
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However, the smaller of the two blazes actually is 81 percent surrounded.
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In many cases, firefighters are able to get the blazes under control.
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Those October blazes were the deadliest rash of wildfires in California history.
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It had to be rebuilt after blazes in 1631, 1670 and 1790.
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Hajra Waheed's "Plume 22013-20143" (22014) comprises found images of oil blazes.
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A series of blazes this spring scorched parts of Nam Sang Wai.
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Read more:Australia's fires are 46% bigger than last year's Brazilian Amazon blazes.
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A total of five firefighters have now died while battling Australia's blazes.
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Despite the effort at fire prevention, blazes ignited in California this week.
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The blazes have destroyed more than 4 million hectares (10 million acres).
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Congo's rainforest is damp enough to stop blazes from tearing through it.
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The cause of the blazes, which have spread into Syria, remains unknown.
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A few protesters screamed at people trying to put out the blazes.
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Here are some images from the blazes now raging across the state.
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More than 5003 blazes are burning across the Western U.S. ___ 3:20 p.m.
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More than 60 blazes are burning across the Western U.S. ___ 9:10 a.m.
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And every so often the fire blazes up dumping ash into the soup.
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Hot, dry conditions are fueling blazes in several states in the U.S. West.
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It comes as hot, dry conditions are fueling blazes in several Western states.
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As Australian firefighters get their blazes under control, the cloud has been dissipating.
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Video showed tents burning while men with firehoses tried to put out blazes.
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Oregon, Washington and Montana are among the states also prone to destructive blazes.
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Signals of changes in the climate are harder to elucidate in these blazes.
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Nearly 9,000 firefighters, including many from states outside California, have tackled the blazes.
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In August blazes in the area of Mati killed at least 99 people.
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This was the largest of the three blazes as of Friday, CNN reported.
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Neighboring counties have been sending equipment and crews to help fight the blazes.
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The causes of both blazes are still being investigated, according to state officials.
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Thousands of firefighters are fighting at least 15 blazes, per The Washington Post.
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Firefighters were battling 50 blazes in Portugal and a similar number in Spain.
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As firefighters keep battling the blazes, a new menace is emerging: debris flows.
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All week long, the sun blazes through Capricorn, the sign of ultimate success.
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California blazes and Japan digs itself out of typhoon damage—is to experience
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Firefighters could only monitor some blazes as suburban homes burned in Santa Rosa.
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The San Diego blazes were blamed on sparks from SDG&E utility lines.
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He said firefighters are concentrating on saving lives rather than battling the blazes.
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The blazes and the choking smoke clouds they create are visible from space.
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Teams of firefighters — about 3,000 total — have been battling both blazes since Friday.
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Firefighters there said they are battling between 20 to 30 blazes a day.
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Firefighters had to tackle at least 30 blazes in national parks and woodland.
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The blazes have killed several people and burned hundreds of thousands of acres.
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With dry brush and no groundwater, the area is already prone to blazes.
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Smoke from the blazes is clearly visible from 438 miles above the Earth.
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About 4,000 firefighters were working to extinguish at least 65 blazes Monday morning.
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Blazes have been torching the world's largest tropical forest for three weeks now.
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Fingers of fire from blazes burning all at once lit up the sky.
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Fast-moving blazes, broiling heat, droughts and bizarrely deadly twists — the new normal.
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In one of the first major corporate responses to the blazes, VF Corp.
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Indonesia rejected Malaysia's complaints, saying blazes were also raging in parts of Malaysia.
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It's likely that a long, hot summer could kick up more historic blazes.
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Residents in some lush rural places thought the blazes would never reach them.
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The number of fires decreased, but new blazes continued to ignite into October.
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For those not directly threatened by the raging blazes, there were other costs.
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In South Australia, more than 120 blazes have broken out in catastrophic conditions.
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But the cause often remains unknown, and the blazes get little international attention.
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Will he propose something to mitigate future blazes, protect homeowners or insurance companies?
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Ms. Harris described seeing firefighters who battled blazes as their own homes burned.
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In some works musicians play instruments, horns blare, and hot sun blazes down.
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So it's not surprising that Trump would weigh in on the California blazes.
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Firefighters had reported modest gains against the blazes, but containment seemed nowhere in sight.
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Residents woke up to blazes surrounding their homes and literally ran for their lives.
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The blazes came as harvest was ending and production was underway at many wineries.
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More than 1,110 firefighters, 145 helicopters and 22 air tankers are battling the blazes.
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The blazes erupted Monday, consuming forests and coastal towns on both sides of Athens.
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Fueled by the most dangerous conditions in a decade, the blazes have spread quickly.
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Deforestation is what's driving these blazes, and there is some horrifying science behind that.
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Almost 650 firefighters were working on the blazes, helped by more than 40 aircraft.
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How are the two blazes "pushing the limits" of the state to contain them?
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Closer to the fire, literally speaking, are the people charged with fighting the blazes.
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And crown fires are much more intense and spread faster than surface-level blazes.
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The extreme heat caused the vegetation to dry out and become kindling for blazes.
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But fire conditions remain severe and the current blazes may continue to spread further.
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Hotter, dryer conditions and lax building standards have made California vulnerable to ravenous blazes.
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Krayzie Bone's lightning cadence still blazes through the haunting darkness of E.1999 Eternal.
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A pair of blazes raging in California have burned tens of thousands of acres.
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Firefighters are trying to apply some of the lessons learned from last year's blazes.
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Now, the increased frequency and intensity of the blazes threatens their way of life.
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Blazes clear out underbrush, restore nutrients to the soil, and help some plants germinate.
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About five homes caught fire and firefighters worked to extinguish those blazes, Folger said.
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Cal Fire spokeswoman Tricia Austin said Sunday the blazes were each 2000 percent contained.
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They say the blazes have killed three firefighters and destroyed more than 27 structures.
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The five blazes, which broke out between July 26-31, were all safely extinguished.
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Firefighters from Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Utah are helping battle the blazes.
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Although conditions had improved by Wednesday morning, new blazes continued to challenge firefighting efforts.
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And in 30 days, firefighters have battled more than 500 blazes, Cal Fire said.
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Insurance claims from those blazes have topped $9 billion, state officials said on Wednesday.
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Common causes are lightning strikes or humans, who drop cigarettes or light blazes deliberately.
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The blazes in the Amazon are so big they can be seen from space.
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One of his last paintings, "Two Guns Arikara" (21973-77), blazes with special promise.
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She is a grown woman, but her temper blazes like that of a child.
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Investigators said the Thomas Fire first began as two separate blazes that joined together.
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Mars blazes a trail through Sagittarius, the sign of the global adventurer, all month.
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In this play, filled with metaphor and symbolism, a sort of electrical discharge blazes.
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Damages topped $10 billion even before the Thomas Fire and other recent blazes began.
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But thankfully, after all that time, the region is now free from the blazes.
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Now they're sweeping up the ashes, and warning of new blazes sure to come.
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In several instances, they have ignited blazes to drive indigenous people off their land.
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California has been particularly hard hit with several fierce blazes menacing large populated areas.
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Meteorologists said global warming had made it difficult to predict where blazes would erupt.
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Despite rescue and treatment efforts, 1 billion animals are feared dead amid the blazes.
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Indonesian forest fire season is in full swing The blazes in Indonesia occur annually.
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He urged residents not to set fires and to put out new blazes immediately.
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It blazes at 2200 million degrees Celsius, nearly 2000 times as hot as lava!
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It blazes at 210 million degrees Celsius, nearly 215 times as hot as lava.
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He urged residents not to set fires and to put out new blazes immediately.
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It's expected the blazes will grow again when weather conditions worsen later this week.
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The smoke from these blazes is visible from space and has circumnavigated the planet.
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The massive blazes have devastated wildlife, destroyed homes and left 24 people dead nationwide.
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The fire station is exploring alternative means to smother blazes, like sand and foam.
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Here are some of the past chemical plant blazes to hit the Houston area.
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Firefighters have been straining to contain blazes that have surrounded this town of 7,600.
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The Delta fire was one of about 15 blazes burning across California this week.
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Putting out the blazes is the most immediate task for California, but not the last.
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On the 21st, the sun blazes into Capricorn and your travel sector, awakening your wanderlust.
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About 300 firefighters are actively fighting blazes, and thousands more are on standby, he said.
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Several studies have examined the health of firefighters who battle structural blazes in urban areas.
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And once started, these blazes then spread rapidly over greater areas than in previous decades.
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Firefighters said that while buildings are at risk, they believe the blazes will be contained.
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Gusts above 70 miles per hour sent burning embers through the air, igniting new blazes.
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Problems in this universe get fixed through tough-guy/gal posturing and blazes of gunfire.
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The spate of blazes has prompted the authorities to tighten safety regulations on new buildings.
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The blazes began on October 8th in the lush wine-growing region outside San Francisco.
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The fiercest of the blazes, the Camp Fire, is the deadliest fire in state's history.
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Farther south, two other blazes ignited Thursday near Los Angeles and turned the sky orange.
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Thousands have been forced to evacuate to avoid the blazes, according to Canadian media reports.
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From Colorado to California, it feels like the blazes from last year never went out.
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Most of the devices either failed to start fires, or their blazes were quickly contained.
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The Mendocino Complex consists of two neighboring Northern California blazes, the Ranch and River fires.
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The Yosemite and Southern California blazes had burned nearly 100 square miles (260 square kilometers).
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Firefighting planes are dotting the skies over the town, dropping water bombs on the blazes.
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Stockton, California, firefighters have complained they constantly put out blazes at homeless encampments this year.
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" Why it matters: "One of the most damaging series of blazes in modern California history.
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That's not to say there are no consequences for the ranchers who orchestrate these blazes.
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The reasons for the surging pestilence are much the same as those for mega-blazes.
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Her timeline blazes with anti-Trump, anti-fascist vitriol—and it's truly beautiful to see.
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Teamwork: Nearly 2100,000 fire departments across California are involved in efforts to contain the blazes.
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Unlike wildfires in California, or the current blazes in Siberia, the Amazon fires aren't natural.
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The two men also paid $400,000 to settle a civil suit related to the blazes.
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During the Amazon's dry season, blazes can also spark from natural sources, like lightning strikes.
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That extra heat and dryness enable blazes to grow bigger than they otherwise might have.
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More than 170 blazes burned at least 245,000 acres in Northern California, Cal Fire said.
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Budget overruns make it impossible for the agency to make preparations and prevent future blazes.
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More than 103,000 people statewide have been driven from their homes because of the blazes.
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As temperatures in the region spike, many are concerned about the possibility of new blazes.
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To help battle the blazes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested assistance from world leaders.
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Authorities have warned the heat could fuel the existing blazes and help spark new ones.
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How each official views climate change's role in these blazes will help determine those policies.
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Some of the blazes were deliberately set by farmers to clear the rainforest for pastureland.
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The blazes have evoked uneasy recollections of racist attacks on black churches across the country.
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The tragedy brings the death toll from the blazes to at least 31 since September.
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And with blazes still burning, it is hard to know how many have been killed.
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Nine in ten of the firefighters battling Australia's historically bad blazes this year are volunteers.
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On top of that, 27 people have perished in the blazes across Australia&aposs countryside.
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Videos taken immediately after the crash show blazes lighting up the darkened fields before dawn.
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Aerial tankers from the United States are being flown in to help battle the blazes.
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The majority of casualties -- 18 -- are from NSW, which has been hit hardest by blazes.
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I would go to sleep with the horizon lit up by blazes from across Oregon.
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Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency last week to mobilize resources to fight the blazes.
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With bushland tinder-box dry, authorities warned locals near existing blazes that fires could spread.
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In particular, these Australian blazes have been getting a boost from exceptional heat and dryness.
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The blazes destroyed hundreds of houses and forced many Los Angeles-area schools to close.
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He said his team had battled blazes where entire blocks of homes had been decimated.
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Conservationists fear over 2,000 of the marsupials have died in the blazes, SBS News reports.
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The Mendocino Complex fire consisted of two major blazes — the River and the Ranch fires.
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Cal Fire, the state's firefighting agency, was hopeful the blazes would be contained by Friday.
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Officials said firefighters battling the blazes on 20 fronts managed to avoid them from spreading.
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Nearly 800 firefighters were battling 73 blazes across the state on Saturday afternoon, the RFS said.
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He also promised government funds for high-tech equipment like drones to help tackle the blazes.
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Research has shown the Western wildfire season is now much longer and resulting in bigger blazes.
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In general, the blazes across the state have increasingly exhibited extreme behavior like immense fire tornadoes.
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The worst of those blazes, dubbed the Tubbs Fire, was blamed for 22 of the deaths.
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The Easy Fire is one in a series of blazes California firefighters are attempting to extinguish.
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More than 5,300 firefighters with more than 1,600 vehicles are battling the blazes across the region.
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The resulting blazes near these homes become more destructive with so much property in their paths.
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Authorities said none of the blazes currently burning posed an immediate danger, thanks to cooler weather.
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Then, the sun blazes into your sign on the 22nd, amping up your desirability even more.
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The closer the tweets got to the blazes, the more people asked for and offered help.
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Collectively, the blazes cover an area larger than New York City and Boston combined, CNN reports.
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Firefighters on Friday were still working to contain the blazes that killed at least six people.
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When the Oklahoma City Fire Department isn't battling blazes, they're tasked with very rewarding rescue missions.
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Roughly 250 trailer homes were destroyed in the blazes, along with several other buildings and vehicles.
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Weather forecasters are predicting rains Thursday, which could bring welcome relief for firefighters battling the blazes.
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But he said he is becoming increasingly disturbed by the number of blazes he now witnesses.
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Firefighters from Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and New York are helping battle the blazes.
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"I'm scared," she said, adding that one of the blazes north of her was moving south.
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The Thomas Fire and five other blazes have scorched nearly 160,000 acres this week, officials said.
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Others had only minutes to escape as winds of over 60 mph fanned fast moving blazes.
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Firefighters are struggling to stop the blazes, with the Carr Fire 41% contained by Saturday night.
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The wildfires ravaging Southern California are part of a worrying trend: big blazes costing taxpayers billions.
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Officials have not said how the other three firefighters died fighting blazes near Yosemite and Redding.
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Blazes in Oklahoma have already consumed more than 350,000 acres and forced some towns to evacuate.
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Remarkably, the Carr Fire already ranks among the top 20 most destructive blazes in state history.
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The wildfire is among the largest and most vicious of the blazes currently ravaging the state.
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Late last month, several blazes led to the evacuation of about 1,000 people in Southern California.
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Even before the blazes, the wineries of the Hunter Valley had contended with years of drought.
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Firefighters extinguished nearly 250 blazes that destroyed 112 cars and burned other property, including several buildings.
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Seven others were still reported missing in the blazes, which have burned for nearly a week.
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Dozens of blazes that have been raging across the region for months flared up this week.
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This rising heat and aridity helped create the conditions for the massive blazes torching the country.
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In addition to the Holy Fire, firefighters in California are battling 15 blazes across the state.
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Other large wildfires in Northern California include two blazes in and around the Mendocino National Forest.
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That fire was one of several blazes that firefighters were battling in Southern California on Saturday.
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The utility could take billions of dollars of liabilities from fatal blazes in 2018 and 2017.
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Experts say the blazes, which have killed at least 27 people, are exacerbated by climate change.
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But its fire map isn&apost intended to show an overall scale of blazes in Australia.
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About 12.35 million acres have burned, according to the AP. The blazes are also threatening wildlife.
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Hundreds of millions of animals are believed to have been killed in the blazes as well.
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But she worried that the rotting logs they inhabit had not protected them from the blazes.
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The fire has provided an eerie, almost apocalyptic, backdrop to areas where the blazes have raged.
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Further north, firefighters are battling several blazes, including the so-called Wall Fire in Butte County.
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The surge of blazes in August marked an 0003% increase from the same period in 2018.
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Eventually, Bolsonaro deployed the military to fight the fires and declared a moratorium on new blazes.
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Firefighters continue to fight the blazes, which have scorched much of the state's famous wine region.
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Collectively, the blazes are covering an area larger than New York City and Boston combined, CNN reports.
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Travel time kicks into gear on the 21st, when the sun blazes on to worldly, adventurous Sagittarius.
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On the 21st, the sun blazes into Sagittarius and your seventh house of partnerships for a month.
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It&aposs one of more than 260 blazes are burning across the Western U.S. ___ 9:20 a.m.
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He then shot at firemen responding to put out the blazes as well, injuring three more people.
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PG&E's liabilities from that fire could be catastrophic if authorities determine its equipment caused the blazes.
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So the extreme measure of shutting off the power is being used to prevent future blazes. 5.
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Last year's blazes were exacerbated by a mild El Nino weather pattern, which prolonged the dry season.
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A deadly combination of strong Santa Ana winds and dry vegetation have led to the ongoing blazes.
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The blazes have nearly doubled this year compared with the same period in 2018, prompting global outrage.
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Wildfires are burning across California this week as risks for more blazes remain high throughout the state.
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Many are questioning whether the Tasmanian fire service has the resources to fight the fierce, remote blazes.
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Powerful winds were driving multiple fires across California and forcing power shut-offs intended to prevent blazes.
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Until that day, Degollado firefighters had been risking their lives battling blazes without the proper fire gear.
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Firefighters and air tankers battle the blazes, dumping bucketloads of retardant the color of cherry Kool-Aid.
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Resources from both California and Nevada are being deployed to fight the blazes, per The Washington Post.
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Here's a look at the scale of the devastation and the resources mobilized to contain the blazes.
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And in the past 218.6 days, firefighters have battled more than 0003 blazes, Cal Fire said. 2000.
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Cal Fire blamed the utility for maintenance violations in connection with a tree that sparked the blazes.
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Firefighters battling the blazes in Northern and Southern California may get some relief in the coming week.
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It recently shut off power to millions of Californians to prevent its installations from sparking new blazes.
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In addition to the blazes in the West, forest fires raged in Sweden above the Arctic Circle.
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The blazes are thought to have produced a layer of smoke roughly 1.2 million square miles wide.
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As temperatures in Alaska reached record highs up to 90 degrees Fahrenheit, hundreds of intense blazes burned.
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He's battled blazes as an engineer paramedic, a fire captain, a fire marshal and a battalion chief.
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More fires contribute to faster climate change, which in turn creates ideal conditions for more Arctic blazes.
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On the 20th, the sun blazes into Gemini and your adventurous, optimistic ninth house for a month.
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Authorities don't know the cause of these new blazes, but several factors contribute to their terrifying speed.
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Firefighters are battling 26 blazes in eight counties: Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino, Yuba, Nevada, Calaveras and Butte.
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Anyone who blazes a trail will at one time or another be considered an outsider, a rogue.
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This year's blazes particularly stand out because of how close they are to suburbs and major cities.
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The shutdown was part of the utility's plan to prevent its equipment from sparking potentially catastrophic blazes.
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Among three major blazes, one threatened Yosemite National Park and another became the largest in state history.
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Firefighters are still working to contain blazes that have already killed 80 people, with 1,300 still missing.
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Investigators are finding that the blazes almost always begin with a human, whether intentionally or by mistake.
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The blazes have destroyed over 2,000 homes and killed at least 24 people, according to local officials.
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From an elevated vantage point, a dozen blazes could be spotted across an 845,000-acre nature preserve.
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Unbridled by continuous firefighting, the blazes have returned to some scorched areas to level what is left.
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Cameras also pinpointed the blazes&apos hotspots in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye.
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There have even been blazes in wetlands and rainforests that have not contended with this threat before.
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The choking smoke from these blazes is causing a health crisis and has literally circled the world.
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Firefighters in California are battling at least 11 large blazes, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
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As volunteers missed work to fight local blazes, Morrison announced in December that they would be compensated.
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The blazes are so large and widespread that satellites in space can easily photograph them from orbit.
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Blazes in NSW and Victoria both grew over the weekend as temperatures climbed and winds picked up.
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The speech came as some fires had already broken out, but major blazes were yet to ignite.
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Climate change, urban expansion, and the suppression of naturally occurring fires have made the blazes more destructive.
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The evacuations were taking place in areas scorched by December's massive Thomas Fire and two other blazes.
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The major fires now blanketing Sydney in smoke started early, within days of the last California blazes.
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Neither aircraft nor ground crews can do much for the blazes that spread quickly with powerful winds.
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Some 40,000 people have been evacuated from 17 different blazes, and there are 14,000 firefighters at work.
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Even before this wave of fires broke out, California was facing more blazes than in previous years.
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The Holy Fire was one of several blazes burning across California that have displaced tens of thousands.
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Since then, conditions have steadily worsened as officials fight the blazes and search for hundreds of missing people.
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Flaunt your arm candy while the sun blazes through Scorpio and your flamboyant fifth house until the 21st.
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The piece is best viewed from a fair distance, at night, when the neon blazes through the darkness.
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The blazes erupted Monday near Rafina, consuming forests and coastal towns on both sides of the Greek capital.
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Anne Helen Petersen wrote a fantastic profile of O'Rourke, as his campaign blazes across the Lone Star State.
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Macron shunted the blazes fires to the top of the summit agenda after declaring them a global emergency.
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Today's disastrous blazes are the confluence of weather, a warming climate, mismanaged forests, and development in fire country.
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The Weather Service said the conditions could lead to the deadliest blazes since the 2017 Wine Country fires.
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Two blazes were triggered by shelling from Islamic State, and fire had spread to two more, Hassi said.
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In her opinion, more money should be spent on preventing fires rather than containing blazes after they've spread.
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Ten were still burning late Tuesday morning, including blazes in Corinth, Crete, and in central and northern Greece.
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Officials released the police footage Wednesday after arson charges were dropped against two juveniles suspected in the blazes.
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The November wildfires, combined with other blazes in the state drove total 2018 insured losses to $12.4 billion.
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Caila somehow maintains perfect windswept hair and a lighthearted attitude as their crowded convertible blazes down the freeway.
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The blazes are an annual occurrence, when farmers clear land by burning it, often for palm oil plantations.
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But on Monday the skies over New York City carried a grim reminder of the blazes' massive reach.
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There's reason to worry that wildfire deaths will only increase as climate change worsens, causing more extreme blazes.
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In total, the blazes have created a layer of smoke estimated to be 1.2 million square miles wide.
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Cal Fire announced Saturday morning it brought in additional aviation assets to bolster its response to new blazes.
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Bus fires are not uncommon in China, where regulators have blamed some recent blazes on flawed auto design.
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Sentry is a fleet of autonomous firefighting machines meant to battle blazes on California's hills, among other applications.
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CalFire said it is turning those findings over to local prosecutors in the counties where the blazes occurred.
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But fire officials have generally not complained that they are running out of water to fight the blazes.
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Peat bog fires are the largest in the world in terms of carbon output, along with coal blazes.
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The fire is one of several blazes in California as the state bakes in high temperatures this week.
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Yes, but: While any rains will be welcome for evacuated residents and firefighters, thunderstorms could spark new blazes.
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The blazes can be seen from space, and the smoke even temporarily eclipsed the sun in São Paulo.
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There are at least five blazes burning right now, adding to a devastating year in California for wildfires.
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Meantime, California utility company Edison International has lost $2303 billion in market value since the blazes began Monday.
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Blazes have stretched almost the length of the state, leaving at least 19993 people dead and many missing.
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The authorities said the blazes, which occurred between March 26 and April 4, were intentionally set and related.
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The Holy Jim Fire is smaller than those blazes but has threatened thousands of homes in an area.
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Some analysts say California's regulators and lawmakers could take steps to extend similar protection in this year's blazes.
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A neon green background blazes out at the viewer, and dried rice begins to fall into the baskets.
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Severe drought, record heat, and strong winds are fueling deadly blazes across Australia, with no end in sight.
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So even far away from the front lines of the fire, many Australians are suffering from the blazes.
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Then This Australian Town Burned: People in some lush rural places thought the blazes would never reach them.
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Then This Australian Town Burned: People in some lush rural places thought the blazes would never reach them.
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We were in Inverloch, a different beach town some 280 miles away — which, this year, escaped the blazes.
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What sets these blazes apart, in terms of their size, is that they are happening in populated areas.
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One of the blazes, the Camp Fire, killed 73 people in 2018 and destroyed the town of Paradise.
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Help is also coming from abroad: the United States and Canada have sent firefighters to battle the blazes.
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In neighbouring Victoria state, firefighters were battling around 20 blazes on Tuesday - down from a peak of 60.
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Since then, firefighters have been battling blazes across almost every state, creating tallies of loss that are enormous.
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Volunteers are fighting most of the blazes and many are now several months away from their last paycheck.
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The blazes, which have been burning across Australia for months, have razed homes and wiped out entire towns.
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The federal government usually reimburses state and local fire agencies for help fighting blazes in the national forests.
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Blazes took 39 lives and torched 199,000 acres in the wine country fires in Northern California in October.
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As the Nordic nation blazes a trail putting women in positions of power what are other countries doing?
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The nearby blazes have covered Sydney, Australia's most populous city, in a thick cloud of smoke for weeks.
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Although the fires often stayed miles from cities and towns, the blazes had broad effects in the South.
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The California Department of Insurance said the northern California blazes caused insured losses of more than $9 billion.
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By extinguishing smaller blazes, leaf litter, shrubs, and small plants build up in forests, increasing the fuel load.
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Those blazes destroyed more than 21995,252 buildings, and 22015 firefighters died battling them, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.
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Those blazes destroyed more than 4,500 buildings, and 13 firefighters died battling them, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.
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And on Saturday, the West Wing alum assisted the firefighters in another way — by helping fight the blazes himself.
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Two of the deadly blazes of Australia's "Black Saturday" were deliberately set; we ask what makes someone start fires.
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Over 100 different fires started on Saturday alone, and fire crews are now struggling to contain the largest blazes.
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About 200 firefighters are working to stop the growth of the two blazes, which are about a mile apart.
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Three major wildfires destroyed or damaged nearly 2100,240 homes and structures this year and followed devastating blazes in 224.
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Many PG&E customers live near dry forests where rain has become increasingly rare - conditions for potential future blazes.
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As a result, fires have become more dangerous, and more destructive blazes are in store for the Golden State.
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President Trump had lashed out at California officials for "mismanaging" forests, contributing to the deadly blazes ravaging the state.
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So, the extreme measure of shutting off the power is being used to try to prevent future blazes. 4.
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Many Northern California residents faced the twin threat of fires and deliberate power outages intended to mitigate the blazes.
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Intentional blackouts are not a viable long-term solution to avoid massive blazes, public policy experts and scientists stress.
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The board writes: Of course existing homes have to become more resilient in the face of wind-driven blazes.
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LISBON (Reuters) - Firefighters battled blazes across Portugal on Thursday, calling in air reinforcements to help tackle the spreading flames.
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The fires were met with anger from Lebanese residents because the government was ill-prepared to combat the blazes.
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The worst of the blazes, November's Camp Fire, leveled the town of Paradise and killed more than 80 people.
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Meanwhile, Australia and Indonesia are experiencing record-breaking fire seasons, with blazes fueled by months of exceptionally dry conditions.
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In both of the 2012 fires, a specific building material was isolated as the main reason for the blazes.
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This year&aposs blazes threaten to have a magnified impact coming at the height of the summer tourist season.
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Drought, warmer weather and other factors have combined to start wildfire season sooner and make the blazes more destructive.
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More than 13,000 firefighters are battling blazes statewide with the help of crews from as far away as Florida.
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Wildfires and smoke were part of life, but they weren't like the giant blazes or smokestorms we see today.
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The Aftonbladet tabloid has run a special section titled "Sweden is burning!" that just covers news on the blazes.
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The sun blazes into fellow fire sign Sagittarius and your fifth house of glamour and amour for a month.
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Dramatic skyscraper blazes are a growing problem in Dubai and other rapidly developing parts of the United Arab Emirates.
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The agency's investigation covered 12 individual blazes accounting for much of the conflagrations that erupted the night of Oct.
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The November blazes killed 14 people and caused more than $500 million in damage in the popular tourist community.
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Some wildfires in the Arctic are normal, but extreme temperatures and rapid warming are creating out-of-control blazes.
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Dozens of fires are still burning, but the 11,000 firefighters are starting to contain some of the bigger blazes.
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While the fire is the largest currently burning in California, it's one of five major blazes in the state.
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Fires themselves also make the forest prone to even more blazes, since they suck moisture out of the air.
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In total, the recent blazes have created a layer of smoke estimated to be 1.2 million square miles wide.
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The insurance industry expected to pay out $11.8 billion in claims to northern California fire victims for 2017 blazes.
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CIBC does not expect any significant losses due to its exposure to the blazes in Fort McMurray, she added.
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Why it matters: The fire is one of dozens of blazes burning across the West, from Colorado to California.
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On the 20th — solstice day — the sun also blazes into Cancer for a month, amplifying your powers of attraction.
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California's severe wildfire season follows last year's devastating blazes, which ranked as the state's worst fire season on record.
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The biggest of the six blazes -- the 230,000-acre Thomas Fire -- is the fifth-largest blaze in state history.
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At least 190,000 residents have been evacuated as 5,2180 firefighters work to contain the blazes, Cal Fire officials said.
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Dry weather coupled with the strong Santa Ana winds are hampering firefighting efforts and making the blazes more explosive.
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Saudi Arabia said it had brought the blazes under control, without specifying whether oil production or exports were affected.
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The narrative homes in on the hollowness of imperial ambitions as Iskandar blazes a frenzied path of self-aggrandizement.
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And I was sad that one did not come through, because my man blazes that show like nobody's business.
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The nearby blazes have blanketed Sydney, Australia&aposs most populous city, in a thick cloud of smoke for weeks.
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Wildlife experts also estimate that as many as 30% of the country's koalas could have died in the blazes.
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To the north, in the state of New South Wales, officials also warned of dangerous and fast-moving blazes.
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In other news: Wildfires are disrupting school for students in regions where such blazes are frequent and getting worse.
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In other news: Wildfires are disrupting school for students in regions where such blazes are frequent and getting worse.
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The carbon dioxide the blazes send into the atmosphere raises the risk of more large fires in the future.
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NSW firefighters continued to battle 83 blazes on Friday, however all of those were at the lowest warning levels.
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An estimated 800 million animals have been killed in the Australian blazes, which came after record heat and drought.
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But so far, the storms haven't really put the fires out and have even sparked new blazes with lightning.
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Still, the rains are a bit of rest for firefighters that have been battling blazes for weeks on end.
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Niel Badenhorst, a cafe owner, said that since the blazes broke out after Christmas, sales were down a quarter.
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Since then, a few small fires have broken out, but nothing on the order of last year's massive blazes.
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California firefighters were not experiencing any issues with their supply of water as they fought the blazes, McLean said.
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Authorities are fighting nearly 140 fires across New South Wales, with strong winds stoking several blazes out of control.
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The Sacramento Bee, citing Cal Fire, reported that more than 14,000 firefighters were battling 17 blazes across the state.
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Officials call the blazes "suspicious" and have stepped up the law enforcement presence at other churches in the area.
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Experts who follow the company say PG&E's total liability from the blazes could be close to $70 billion.
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But, returning to check whether her rental property had survived the blazes, she found destruction of a different kind.
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Jerry Brown countered that climate change was the bigger factor driving the massive blazes in the state this year.
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The fire that sparked the dozen other blazes was "human-caused," National Park Service spokeswoman Dana Soehn said, without elaborating.
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But true to the spirit of the job, we really have no idea what in blazes is going to happen.
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The Western Canadian province is currently battling 220 blazes covering a land base of nearly 24,000 hectares (92 square miles).
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In Southern California, several destructive blazes that broke out late last week during an intense heat wave have quieted down.
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But their mission now is to help subdue the blazes, so firefighters haven't tolerated President Trump's wrong-headed, oversimplified message.
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Last year, the state approved a law helping utilities recoup costs from fires in 2017, but not blazes in 2018.
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Several blazes merged into one massive fire reportedly 216 to 2185 miles across, according to Potter County Sheriff's Office Capt.
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As firefighters continued to battle multiple blazes in the region, tens of thousands of evacuees were cleared to return home.
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"Things are changing around here," said Lynne Tolmachoff, a spokeswoman for Cal Fire, the agency that fights California's wildland blazes.
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Those blazes allowed species that could withstand some fire, like the longleaf pine, to proliferate and flourish, shaping local ecosystems.
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Recently, the president has suggested the Amazon blazes could have been set in an attempt to make him look back.
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The women remained still, looking into each other's eyes as the blazes whipped behind their backs and the crowd cheered.
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At midday, the formidable orb that lights the Namibian sky blazes so fiercely that the landscape resembles an overexposed photograph.
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The utility's equipment has been blamed in recent years for igniting catastrophic blazes, including last year's deadly Camp Fire. 3.
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Bolivian ranchers in the remote region were in some cases left to fend for themselves ahead of the encroaching blazes.
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The blazes burn unabated across vast swaths of hilly tropical forest and savannah near Bolivia's border with Paraguay and Brazil.
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With the increase of urban sprawl in the country, this week's fires happened when blazes spread to the nearby cities.
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The last aspect of Trump's unique pitch to older voters is financial in nature and it truly blazes new ground.
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The higher-than-normal temperatures are blamed for sparking tundra blazes that threatened the state's forests, Inside Climate News reported.
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The parched conditions have aided the spread of deadly wildfires this year, with woodland blazes killing more than 100 people.
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People are moving into areas prone to burning, people ignite the majority of blazes, and people are changing the climate.
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The blazes have killed at least 2800 people, burned more than 59903,25990 acres, and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses.
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California lawmakers have not yet moved to pass legislation that would give PG&E similar flexibility for the 2018 blazes.
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The fires killed 46 people in blazes across at least 245,000 acres, including subdivisions in the city of Santa Rosa.
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The Carr Fire, the name given to the Redding blaze, was one of three fierce blazes threatening large populated areas.
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The Tubbs and Atlas fires, two of the big blazes in Napa and Sonoma counties, have each been 50% contained.
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This is the notion that people of color can only succeed if a white person blazes the trail for them.
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He said one of the blazes had neared the Pantex Plant nuclear weapons facility, but the advancing flames were suppressed.
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Most are in western states, with blazes also in central Texas and Wisconsin, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
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The Camp Fire is one of two major blazes burning in California that have left at least 58 people dead.
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"But how in blazes am I supposed to be able to afford to live that long?" asked FJP in Philadelphia.
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Unpredictable winds and extremely dry brush, victim of little rainfall over the past three months, fueled at least five blazes.
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On Friday, President Donald Trump declared a federal emergency for the devastating blazes, which frees up federal funding for aid.
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Most are in western states, with blazes also in central Texas and Wisconsin, according to the National Interagency Coordination Center.
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The blazes can be seen from space, and the smoke even temporarily eclipsed the sun in Sao Paulo on Monday.
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Deforestation and fires are linked, since setting blazes is one of the main ways people clear land in the Amazon.
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Read more about the Amazon rainforest fires:The blazes in the Amazon are so big they can be seen from space.
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It's killed seven people, scorched more than 145,000 acres and is the deadliest of 17 blazes racing through the state.
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In all, the October 11 fires in Northern California involved more than 170 blazes and charred at least 245,000 acres.
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Just a few weeks after the blazes were contained, a string of wildfires broke out and consumed headlines for weeks.
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Much of the time during these events Southern California gets lucky, and there are no major blazes to speak of.
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It will cover the Tupac lyric that blazes across his chest: God Bless The Child That Can Hold His Own.
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She smokes a bowl most days after work, and blazes up two to three times a day on the weekends.
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The bottom line: The Ferguson Fire, like many other blazes in the West, is unlikely to be extinguished anytime soon.
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A bankruptcy filing is not PG&E's preference for addressing liabilities from the catastrophic blazes, some of the sources said.
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Most of the blazes were set deliberately — and illegally — by farmers and loggers to clear land for crops and pastures.
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The Tubbs Fire, which scorched more than 36,000 acres was most destructive of the blazes in Napa and Sonoma counties.
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Officials at Cal Fire, the state firefighting agency, do not usually lump separate — but simultaneous — blazes together for record keeping.
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Dirty air stemming from blazes is often the deadliest health effect of wildfires, and the impacts can linger for years.
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The resulting blazes destroyed parts of Santa Rosa and other communities in the north and now threaten greater Los Angeles.
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Now, with fire season underway, city officials are growing anxious about the uptick in blazes that start in makeshift communities.
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Fire services said that while the rain will not extinguish all the blazes, it will help greatly to contain them.
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They were the first firefighter deaths in a fire season that has overwhelmed the largely volunteer brigades battling the blazes.
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The French leader pledged $22 million from G-7 countries to help tackle the blazes — but Brazil rejected the funding.
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The blazes have torched more than 27 million acres, an area larger than Kentucky, and destroyed more than 2,000 homes.
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Twenty veteran firefighters from California are headed to Australia to join the 2,700 or so firefighters already battling the blazes.
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Firefighters were overwhelmed by more than 237 raging blazes and families were forced to make perilous stay-or-go decisions.
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Australia is prone to deadly blazes, thanks to its combination of remote terrain, high summer temperatures and flammable eucalyptus bush.
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McGlover was initially charged with starting nine separate blazes on July 25, including the Cranston Fire, which was the largest.
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Some 20 people were arrested on Tuesday following the blazes, while four others remain in custody following fires on Saturday.
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The state's firefighters have been spread thin amid a fire season defined by extremely dry conditions and particularly intense blazes.
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President Trump has also threatened to cut off federal funding for wildfire relief after devastating blazes that killed 89 people.
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Others opted to stay and defend homes, likening burning trees to "exploding infernos" and describing the roar of the blazes.
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Now, the blazes are creating giant thunderstorms that could spark more fires, according to the Bureau of Meteorology in Victoria.
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The most destructive and deadly of these blazes was the Camp Fire, which in a matter of hours on Nov.
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Authorities in New South Wales and Queensland, areas where the blazes got most severe, declared states of emergency on November 11.
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They have already proven their worth by allowing fire managers and others to spot blazes early to keep them from spreading.
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Two electric utilities say they sustained equipment problems close to the origins of the blazes around the time they were reported.
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In total, there are more than 2,277 firefighters, 147 helicopters, 280 pieces of equipment and 29 air tankers battling the blazes.
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California firefighters started the year still fighting blazes from 2017, including the Thomas Fire, the single largest wildfire in California history.
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They have, however, been far less deadly than the blazes in Northern California's wine country in October that killed over 40.
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The blazes, which rank as one of the worst wildfire disasters in California's history, are not yet close to full containment.
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The pickup-size truck, which comes equipped with a water tank and hoses, is designed to fight blazes in rural areas.
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Intense Santa Ana winds, which blow from California's deserts toward the more populous coasts, have made fighting the blazes particularly difficult.
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More than 1,110 firefighters, 145 helicopters, 138 pieces of heavy equipment and 22 air tankers are struggling to control the blazes.
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A series of deadly blazes tore through the same area in Northern California wine country two years ago, killing 44 people.
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Centuries-old trees, whose thick bark can withstand lesser blazes, are incinerated and seed banks beneath the forest floor are destroyed.
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Global anger and concern has been steadily rising as the blazes have raged because of the rainforest's importance to the environment.
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The UK's Johnson has voiced deep concern about the forest blazes, but appeared to disagree with Macron on how to respond.
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California's fire season now stretches throughout the year, and the risk of more blazes will remain high in the coming weeks.
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The blazes have destroyed about 2,500 homes, killed an estimated 1 billion native animals and threatened the habitats of many more.
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He said the water was being sprayed from a fire truck to control blazes as they are being set by activists.
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We will take a look at the president&aposs claims and what is contributing to the blazes when we come back.
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More than 25,2000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders as two blazes rage 2120 miles (50 kilometers) apart in Northern California.
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The biggest blazes continue to burn north of San Francisco, including twin wildfires fueled by dry vegetation and hot, windy weather.
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Dry, hot winds fueled both blazes, which have collectively charred nearly 400 square miles (1,036 square kilometers) of brush and timber.
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At least 10,000 people were evacuated after the new wildfire broke out in southern France, which was already battling massive blazes.
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On Monday, the state received a fresh warning sign of why the risks of massive, devastating blazes like it are growing.
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A combination of heavy rain and scarred vegetation after last fall's huge blazes have created mudslides in a number of places.
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Still, TikTok's popularity — if you're the parent of a teenager, that teenager probably has it on her phone — blazes uncharted territory.
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How to help the victims of the California wildfires • Almost 280,280 firefighters are trying to contain the blazes, officials said Thursday.
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In just the last couple days, news reports have covered two separate incidents — both massive blazes that led to significant destruction.
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About 275,2000 firefighters supported by air tankers and helicopters are battling blazes that have consumed more than 28.6,133 acres (213,29.3 hectares).
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In 2017 and 2018, California experienced the largest, most destructive and deadliest blazes recorded in the state's long history of wildfires.
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Greece often faces wildfires during its dry summer months, and authorities have warned of the high risk of blazes this week.
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Australia: Dozens of blazes are burning across the country's drought-ravaged East Coast and are expected to threaten Sydney this week.
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Perhaps the most dramatic consequence of climate change is supercharged wildfires: Drier weather leads to drier brush, which fuels massive blazes.
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The Carr Fire — the largest of the blazes — has destroyed more than 6900,2628 homes and killed six people, including two firefighters.
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And in 30 days, firefighters have battled more than 500 blazes, said Cal Fire, the state's forestry and fire protection agency.
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Now, meteorologists and first responders view each coming rainstorm for its potential to trigger mudslides below slopes stripped bare by blazes.
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Here, farmers deliberately set blazes to kill off unwanted plants and to enrich the soil with the nutrients from burned vegetation.
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This summer, swaths of the Arctic from Siberia to Greenland burned so intensely that the blazes could be seen from space.
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Now, scientists worry that the fires are contributing to a climate change feedback loop that could make Arctic blazes more common.
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Those who were affected by the deadliest wildfire season in history already know how little control we have over these blazes.
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From Wednesday until May 20, the sun blazes a trail through the bull's zone and blesses the world with practical magic.
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There were eight major blazes there on Thursday, and the burned area grew to more than 120,21 acres, Cal Fire reported.
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The smoke produced by the blazes that ravaged the country may ruin entire vintages, but detecting contamination is a guessing game.
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In Victoria, firefighters contained a number of blazes, but 40,000 hectares were destroyed and hundreds of people were forced to evacuate.
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Yet, as Marianne Elliott's enthralling London-born production makes clear, "Angels" blazes with a passion that is the opposite of morbid.
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The blazes don't care about wealth or status, and have taken the homes of celebrities including Neil Young and Miley Cyrus.
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Almost 2,000 firefighters are out battling all the blazes, with 161 helicopters, 29 air tankers and 377 pieces of heavy equipment.
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It did not ask for a new mandate on second staircases for escaping blazes, which remain optional in many cases, too.
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Thousands of firefighters are working to contain the blazes, but their efforts are being complicated by a forecast of strong winds.
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President Jair Bolsonaro signed the decree on Wednesday, days after announcing he would deploy military troops to help fight the blazes.
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The town of Seeley Lake, Montana, about 50 miles from Missoula, suffered some of the highest pollution levels from the blazes.
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Many people in Knysna, a town on the scenic Garden Route east of Cape Town, fled as blazes tore through homes.
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The blazes clouded the skies above cities like Canberra and Sydney, creating some of the worst air pollution in the world.
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The fire also set off an argument among Australia's politicians on whether climate change was a contributing factor to the blazes.
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To beat its worsening blazes, California relies on inmate firefighters, including women, that volunteer through the Department of Corrections' firefighting program.
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As the blazes devoured his farm, Mr. Kelly spent a sleepless night shielding his home from exploding trees and flying embers.
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Manipulating the wildfire debate: Rupert Murdoch's media empire is accused of shifting blame for Australia's blazes to play down climate change.
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The government also sent the military to fight the fires in the Amazon, but thousands of blazes are still raging there.
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The carbon dioxide that fires send into the atmosphere further contributes to climate change, raising the risk of more intense blazes.
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The blazes have burned more than 18 million acres, killed dozens of people and left behind billions of dollars in damages.
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Earlier this month, NASA said smoke from the historic blazes traveled "halfway across Earth," impacting the air quality in other countries.
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Much of the severe heat was accompanied by brisk winds across much of Australia, which exacerbates fire risks and spreads blazes.
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Fires in the Los Angeles area Thursday's winds were of no help to Los Angeles-area firefighters, who battled several blazes.
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Over the past week, blazes have torn through the 27-hectare Adelaide Hills vineyards owned by fifth-generation winemaker Stephen Henschke.
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At the gold souk in downtown Khartoum, a large sign advertising Algunade blazes above rows and rows of idle jewellery shops.
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At the gold souk in downtown Khartoum, a large sign advertising Algunade blazes above rows and rows of idle jewelry shops.
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But the good news is that new technology is being developed to help authorities find the blazes and keep people safe.
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America's national parks are increasingly bearing the burden of climate change, as rising temperatures and new weather patterns create mega blazes.
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If you let smaller blazes burn, they destroy brush that can otherwise build up and fuel an out-of-control wildfire.
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So with a sort of exchange program, firefighters from either region could pop across the Pacific to help battle seasonal blazes.
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That, however, was not enough for many people in towns razed by bushfires and some of the firefighters tackling the blazes.
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Here are a few of the most vivid images we've seen of the recent blazes and the fight to contain them.
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The state is bracing for perhaps another severe wildfire season after catastrophic 2017 and 2018 blazes that killed more than 120 people.
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Danko also represents a group of plaintiffs suing PG&E over the 2017 wine country fires, a group of Northern California blazes.
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As the emergency continues in Madeira, Portugal sought help to deal with about 63 wildfires on the mainland, including 14 major blazes.
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While it's tempting to blame climate change for the recent spike in wildfires, the causes of these blazes are complex and multifaceted.
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In what the military described as a response to the blazes, Israeli jets struck nine Hamas targets in northern Gaza on Monday.
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The blazes scorching northern Israel began Tuesday in the northern community of Zichron Ya'akov, about 240 kilometers (22 miles) north of Haifa.
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The Butte Fire was caused by PG&E power lines while the 2017 blazes were blamed on faulty power lines and poles.
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But people haven't just placed themselves in the line of fire: They're also causing most of the blazes that wreak such havoc.
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At least six homes burned as the blazes swept through dry brush to the edge of communities in the Santa Clarita area.
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The blazes have nearly doubled this year compared with the same period in 2018, according to Brazilian officials, prompting a global outcry.
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However, the company had contended for months that its equipment was not at fault for the deadliest of the Northern California blazes.
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Fires are a natural part of many western ecosystems, but the unusually devastating blazes arose from a number of converging human factors.
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Forest fires are a normal part of Chile's hot, dry, summer, but this year, the blazes have been exceptionally fierce and destructive.
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To convey the extent of these blazes, he has put together a timelapse video showing them from a unique—and horrifying—perspective.
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It is hardly likely that firefighters would refuse to extinguish blazes because of a political disagreement over who runs the fire department.
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But the destruction from the gargantuan blazes we've seen in recent years is hardly natural; human activity is clearly making it worse.
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It means ensuring that our wildlands are fire-hardy, and that we're doing everything in our power to catch big blazes early.
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Calabasas and the nearby Santa Monica Mountains are not strangers to wildfires -- the area has experienced many dangerous blazes over the years.
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Although the drone and the tracking system will help track and prevent fires, they can't quench these massive blazes once they've begun.
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Officials say together the blazes about 100 miles (143 kilometers) north of San Francisco have charred 455 square miles (1,178 square kilometers).
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Blazes routinely blacken large areas of forest every year in Portugal, but last year was the deadliest summer fire season on record.
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When major skyscraper blazes have occurred, 9/11 truthers have cited the charred but standing structural skeletons as proof of their narrative.
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"[I] congratulate the brave firefighters and first responders who have been there to do extraordinary work through these terrible blazes," said Trudeau.
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PG&E has been blamed for many of the blazes, including the Camp Fire that killed more than 80 people last November.
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The increasing intensity of California's blazes has many residents of the Golden State wondering: Is the smoke from wildfires also getting worse?
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Firefighters are trying to contain numerous blazes raging in Northern and Southern California; Cyprus opens the first new border crossing in years.
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Political risk analysts say the blazes could hurt the governing center-left coalition of current President Michelle Bachelet and boost Pinera's chances.
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Instead of dancing in the dark, Bruce Springsteen's son has chosen a career of battling blazes ... among lots of other heroic stuff.
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High winds and low humidity, coupled with dry conditions, are making it tough for firefighters to get a handle on the blazes.
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A firefighter for the Rancho Adobe Fire Protection District, Robert Nappi was fighting the blazes on the other side of Highway 101.
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About 280 firefighters were battling the blazes while 22,000 homes were without power after the high winds brought down trees, Lapsley said.
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The Woolsey Fire is one of two blazes burning just miles from the site of Wednesday night's mass shooting in Thousand Oaks.
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Meanwhile, in Canada, the province of British Columbia declared a state of emergency in response to more than five hundred active blazes.
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On Friday, President Jair Bolsonaro, who has dismissed complaints about the fires, said Brazil's army could be deployed to fight the blazes.
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Farmers commonly set fires in this season to clear land for crops or livestock, but sometimes the blazes get out of control.
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That made it one of the most destructive blazes in state history, according to California Department of Forestry and Fire protection data.
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In tweets over the weekend, Trump blamed poor forest management for the blazes and threatened to withhold emergency funding from the state.
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After intense international pressure, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday finally moved to battle the devastating blazes sweeping through the Amazon rainforest.
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Fire officials have issued a grim prediction, warning that massive blazes will cost the state billions of dollars over the next decade.
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Over nearly a century, land managers have worked to extinguish blazes as quickly as possible rather than letting them run their course.
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Two other blazes collectively called the Mendocino Complex burned in Mendocino, Lake and Colusa counties, about 90 miles north of San Francisco.
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The climate context: California's severe wildfire season follows last year's devastating blazes, which ranked as the state's worst fire season on record.
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In Kansas, the wildfires this week were the largest on record but many of the blazes were being contained, state officials said.
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Some 5,503 houses and structures have been destroyed and many more damaged by the blazes that barreled through Northern California last week.
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By mid-June, officials said, 412 blazes had been set — and the military has conceded that it is unable to stop them.
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Brazil has sent in its Army to handle the Amazon blazes, preferring a unilateral military solution to a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe.
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Manhole fires: Officials are investigating the source of two blazes yesterday that led to the evacuation of three buildings in Midtown Manhattan.
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Recently, I talked to Neal Driscoll, a professor there who's helping head a program aimed at finding new blazes earlier, called ALERTWildfire.
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Nearly half of that acreage was in remote Alaska, where authorities could manage the blazes with little danger to people, Smith said.
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With its judicious depth and brilliant blazes of writing that simmer, then nourish, "With the Fire on High" is literary soul food.
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Blazes have ripped through six Indonesian provinces in the past month, including West Kalimantan which borders Malaysia on the island of Borneo.
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It's also very difficult to halt human-induced blazes, Lincoln Muniz Alves, a researcher at INPE's Earth System Science Centre, told CNN.
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There's no question that several parts of the Amazon rainforest are on fire, and humans are likely the cause of the blazes.
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Now, fire season lasts much of the year, and the biggest blazes have called for firefighters from as far away as Australia.
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The winds, she said, usually last for a couple of days before they subside, which gives firefighters a chance to control blazes.
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The blazes have burned approximately 25.7 million acres of land and emitted more than 400 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere.
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But though this movie ostensibly celebrates the spirit of adventure and openness to experience, it takes no risks and blazes no trails.
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At certain angles, the feather colors look drab, but when you crane your neck the right way, the iridescence blazes into sight.
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But firefighters are making little or no progress in extinguishing the blazes and little rain is expected before the end of January.
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The new fires, made up of more than 100 blazes, burned a further 3,000 acres, doubling the yearly average of lost forest.
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By Thursday, the major fires were under control and the Civil Defense forces were working on putting out a few remaining blazes.
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Hundreds of millions of animals have perished in the blazes, and the environment will take years to bounce back from the trauma.
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Turns out, even as the impeachment debate blazes, Democrats and Republicans can agree on one thing: They don't like surprise medical bills.
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It also means letting some fires grow bigger, which requires personnel to monitor the blazes even when they stay within acceptable limits.
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Jerry Brown has issued a grim prediction, warning that massive blazes will cost the state billions of dollars over the next decade.
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No civilian casualties or fatalities have been reported from the blazes but three firefighters were injured, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.
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High volumes of rainfall are credited with helping firefighters battle the blazes, which experts say were greatly exacerbated by a warming climate.
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Australia's wildfires are so intense, smoke from the blazes has traveled over 1,200 miles to blanket parts of New Zealand's South Island.
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Note that Cooper sets up in the slot with a free release, and just blazes right past Chris Conte on the outside.
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In the aftermath of the blazes, 66 people have died, at least 600 have gone missing and thousands have lost their homes.
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In 2006, a burn ban was in effect while firefighters battled blazes started by a lightning storm on a hot day in August.
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It said that more than 70 firefighters from 13 different fire departments had responded to fight the blazes, which had destroyed four structures.
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Nearly 11,000 firefighters were involved in battling the blazes, and help came from more than a dozen other states as well as Australia.
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A number of the fires are being investigated as suspected arson, but natural causes and conditions are also responsible for blazes, Haines said.
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Dozens of structures have been destroyed so far (with more losses expected), and some 5,000 firefighters have been dispatched to tackle the blazes.
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An online fundraiser for a California firefighter seriously injured in one of the many blazes burning in the state has raised nearly $280,220.
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Across the region, the dry winter has led to a dangerous fire season as firefighters battle blazes in Utah, Wyoming, Washington and California.
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Two juveniles face charges of aggravated arson in connection with the Gatlinburg blazes -- which happened in December -- well outside the natural wildfire season.
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Since September, the unprecedented fires have razed over 27 million acres, and at least 1 billion animals are feared dead in the blazes.
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And in June, PG&E paid $1 billion in damages to local governments for blazes linked to its power lines and other equipment.
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That followed a $1 billion payment in damages to local governments in June for blazes linked to its power lines and other equipment.
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Indonesia last year suffered the worst forest blazes in four years when 1.6 million hectares of its forests and peat lands were burned.
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The largest of the blazes, the Rhea Fire, had burned 283,095 acres in western Oklahoma and was only 15% contained as of Thursday.
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The Thomas Fire was part of a series of late-season blazes that erupted in Southern California amid particularly hot and dry weather.
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Many residents in Northern California faced a twin threat on Thursday: fires, but also the deliberate power outages meant to mitigate the blazes.
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Some of the largest blazes were in Napa and Sonoma counties, home to dozens of wineries that attract tourists from around the world.
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READ: Kim Kardashian prays for other wildfire evacuees from her escape aircraft with a view Elsewhere in the state, blazes continue to threaten.
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High winds — some nearing hurricane strength — are expected late tonight, raising the prospect of more fires and the rapid growth of existing blazes.
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Short-term particle pollution was made worse, Barrett said, by several devastating wildfires in 2017, including the wine country blazes in Northern California.
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Elsewhere in Southern California, firefighters made significant progress in containing the other major blazes that have ravaged the region since early last week.
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Other firefighters have expressed frustration in their inability to tame fast-spreading blazes in forest plantations, which are often located close to communities.
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There were also reports of blazes surrounding two major tiger reserves, Corbett National Park and Rajaji National Park, and endangering their wildlife population.
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Faces disappear into fuzzy blurs, the colors trend toward a muddy yellowish-brown, and light sources burn out into blazes of distracting white.
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The term "super-Earth" is apt; this planet weighs as much as eight Earths, and its surface temperature blazes at 2,050 degrees Celsius.
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The company continued to slow data speeds even after being informed it was "actively impeding" responders' ability to fight the blazes, Bowden writes.
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More than 14,000 firefighters are battling over a dozen major blazes throughout California, a state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman said.
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French President Emmanuel Marcon also tweeted his support Wednesday for those affected by the blazes, expressing admiration for firefighters and support for evacuees.
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The above chart shows all fires that burned over 300 acres each year from 2000 to 2017 in California, including this months' blazes.
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This chart shows all fires that burned over 300 acres each year from 2000 to 2017 in California, including the December 2017 blazes.
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Around 353 firefighting vehicles are still on the ground battling the blazes, along with 20 soldiers and four bulldozers, according to the agency.
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Why the blazes are spreading so quickly: Dry conditions, low humidity, and high winds, according to California's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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The cause of the fires remain under investigation, though authorities say the blazes could have been triggered by combustible gases from disintegrating garbage.
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Lopez blazes through one book a day from some of history's greatest minds, and he credits his success in business to this ability.
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The fire was the fiercest of several wind-driven blazes across California on Thursday, during one of the state's worst years for wildfires.
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The fires were of such immense and unforgiving wrath that they would end up being the most catastrophic blazes in the state's history.
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Commissioner Fitzsimmons said there were around 100 aircraft ready to help the roughly 1,500 firefighters already posted at blazes across New South Wales.
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Clearly, the wildfires -- with blazes that have scorched more than 190,000 acres, destroyed 3,500-plus structures and killed 31 people -- are not helping.
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Dangerous winds A firefighting force of more than 2000,2100 has made progress battling the blazes, but strong winds Saturday could create new problems.
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The fires have caused several minor injuries but no deaths, which some people say suggests that students had prior knowledge of the blazes.
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More than 13,000 fire personnel are battling the blazes across the region, Jennifer Jones, spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center told CNN.
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Firefighters in Kissufim, on the Israeli side of the Gazan border, told CNN Monday they were battling 20 to 30 blazes a day.
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Should runaway blazes overtake the Amazon, it could push the ecosystem beyond a tipping point from which it won't be able to recover.
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More than a dozen fires are burning in California In addition to the Holy Fire, firefighters in California are battling 15 large blazes.
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Fire officials have issued a grim prediction, warning that massive blazes will cost the state billions of dollars more over the next decade.
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While the weekend's blazes were the first major ones of the season to hit California, others have raged throughout the west for weeks.
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Cal-Fire are doing their best to fight these raging blazes and protect homes and lives, and to them we are immensely grateful.
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The blazes are taking place amid tinder dry and windy conditions, and signal what officials fear will be a historically damaging fire seasons.
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The utility company has been blamed for two recent, devastating wildfires in the state — 2018 Camp Fire and the 2017 Wine Country blazes.
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They have also drawn the ire of preemptively cutting the power to millions of residents in California this wildfire season to prevent blazes.
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The blazes vary in size, but together, they are larger than the cities of New York and Boston combined, or bigger than Singapore.
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The high winds that had propelled the blazes died down on Tuesday, but conditions were expected to get worse on Wednesday and Thursday.
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The blazes have barreled through communities like freight trains, turning homes to dust in a blink and leaving at least 23 people dead.
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The wildfires that have devastated Northern California's wine country are still spreading, and the crews battling the blazes are stretched to their limits.
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Officials are investigating both blazes to determine if they are linked, the Monmouth County prosecutor, Christopher J. Gramiccioni, said at a news conference.
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The fires in Brazil's sprawling Amazon rainforest have receded slightly since Bolsonaro sent in the military to help battle the blazes last week.
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Fires are not unusual in Siberian forests, but the concern about this year's blazes is their scale and their proximity to population centers.
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They also have not determined whether the blazes, which occurred between March 26 and Thursday, were intentionally set, she said in an email.
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As the authorities investigated a series of blazes that destroyed three black churches, residents gathered Sunday with a mix of concern and defiance.
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New Mexico, where crews have battled one fire after another this year, is grappling with the devastation and disruption caused by the blazes.
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Deadly blazes have become increasingly severe and routine in Portugal, spurred by poor land management and hotter, drier summers because of climate change.
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While forest fires are a normal feature of summer in Mediterranean Europe, the frequency and intensity of the blazes this summer are exceptional.
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As we previously reported, more than 2,500 homes have been destroyed since the blazes began ... with the fire killing at least 28 people.
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That data can reveal the centers of blazes, so the information is sent to land managers and firefighters working to contain the outbreaks.
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As blazes rage in southern Australia, Indigenous fire-prevention techniques that have sharply cut destructive bushfires in the north are drawing new attention.
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Until now, fires this large happened mostly in places like northern Canada or Siberia, where few people live and blazes burn largely uncontrolled.
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Across the continent, an estimated 43 billion animals have been killed, and fire officials say some individual blazes will continue burning for months.
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To his credit, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sent a coalition of eight fire trucks and 220006 firefighters to help fight the blazes.
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The recent return of large blazes to California's wine country, for example, were largely stoked by hot temperatures, turning abundant vegetation to tinder.
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Firefighters on Wednesday were still battling the blazes, the deadliest in state history, as search-and-rescue teams picked through burned-out neighborhoods.
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Officials said it could take until Wednesday to put out the blazes in tanks filled with gas, oil and chemicals, according to ITC.
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Across California, thousands of firefighters were combating at least 15 large blazes — including one that breached a grove of giant sequoias near Yosemite.
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The attacks hit deeper into Saudi territory than most previous Houthi strikes and set off blazes whose smoke could be seen from space.
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Now, the company is cutting power altogether as a last-ditch attempt to keep high winds from damaging electrical equipment and igniting blazes.
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In December, as firefighters battled worsening blazes, Mr. Morrison left for a vacation in Hawaii, returning only after nationwide outrage over his absence.
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He added that the organization was considering sending money to funds benefiting victims of the blazes and to fire services in other states.
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Australia's leaders face growing pressure to address climate change, as scientists blame the country's increasingly hot and dry conditions for the disastrous blazes.
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Some were crying in fear as the blazes created a disorienting, thick black smoke and intense heat without a safe exit on campus.
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Singapore also issued a health advisory last week due to heightened air pollution from the blazes in Indonesia, warning residents to stay indoors.
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The country has spent months this year battling blazes as the El Nino weather pattern has caused a more severe annual dry season.
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Thousands are working extended shifts to battle relentless blazes, raising questions about whether the country can continue to rely on an unpaid force.
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But two electric utilities have said they sustained equipment problems close to the origins of the blazes around the time they were reported.
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Fire officials, employing more than 960 fire engines, 30 air tankers and 73 helicopters, hoped the blazes would be fully contained by Friday.
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California's wildfire siege continues and may worsen Monday and Tuesday as thousands of firefighters continue to battle massive blazes up and down the state.
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Cal Fire has pinned the blame on PG&E in at least 16 wildfires in last year's fire siege, including some blazes with fatalities.
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Last year's blazes were the worst for years with El Nino, a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific, causing tinder-dry conditions.
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Starting with Rey and BB-8's Jakku jaunt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the supercut blazes through a total of 14 blockbusters.
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Starting with Rey and BB-8's Jakku jaunt in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the supercut blazes through a total of 14 blockbusters.
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While the weekend&aposs blazes were the first major ones of the season to hit California, others have raged throughout the west for weeks.
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The cause of the Camp and Woolsey fires is under investigation, but electric utilities reported equipment problems around the time both blazes broke out.
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Fire service spokesman Cesar Trochez said "three commercial businesses caught fire" during the clashes, adding that the causes for the blazes were under investigation.
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About 103,000 residents have been evacuated and 23,000 homes threatened, with 22,2500 firefighters on the lines still controlling the blazes, according to the authorities.
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The Thomas Fire was the largest of several large blazes that broke out across Southern California following the onset of the Santa Ana winds.
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And a book that sells for a while is almost always more profitable than a book that blazes brightly for a year before disappearing.
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Thousands of miles away from the deadly deluges brought by the now-tropical depression Florence, wildland firefighters are still battling extreme blazes out West.
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While authorities focus on suppressing the blazes that pose the biggest risk to humans and property, many wild areas are being left to burn.
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These risks are continuing to mount, which means the future holds more dangerous, frequent, and costly blazes for vast swaths of the United States.
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Some of the wildfires' largest blazes burned over California's Napa and Sonoma counties, which are home to hundreds of wineries that attract tourists worldwide.
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Like the Galaxy S7 and LG G5, you can throw hard-hitting apps like 3D games at the HTC 10 and it still blazes.
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Waves of wildfires have it California this summer -- eight large blazes had already been burning -- fueled by dry conditions, heat and dead brush. 4.
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A new wildfire broke out in Los Angeles on Monday and blazes fanned by high wind spread elsewhere in California, a day after Gov.
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More than 2290,000 firefighters are battling over a dozen major blazes throughout California, state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Scott McLean said.
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Two blazes burning 2000 miles (0003 kilometers) apart are threatening dozens of buildings and have prompted mandatory evacuations in Northern California&aposs Mendocino County.
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The County Fire is one of three dozen major blazes burning out of control across the U.S. West during an unusually active fire season.
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Canada has also had an unusually severe wildfire season, with numerous large blazes torching millions of acres in British Columbia and Alberta, in particular.
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He also called for more fire-spotting cameras to help detect wildfires in high-risk fire areas before they can spread into larger blazes.
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Ten new large blazes ignited on Monday as a total of 35 wildfires burned across the U.S. West, the National Interagency Coordination Center said.
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The Mendocino Complex is actually two blazes burning so close together that authorities are attacking them as one, a common practice at Cal Fire.
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The jury in their case ended up deadlocked, and the Hammonds only admitted involvement in the two blazes as part of a plea deal.
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Mandatory evacuation orders are now being lifted in some areas, including the city of Napa, but more than a dozen blazes are still burning.
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Dozens of blazes, many of them out of control, are burning from the Sydney suburbs to areas hundreds of miles north around Byron Bay.
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Among the fleet are helicopters and air tankers -- huge planes fitted with tanks -- that can drop water or fire retardant on blazes, he said.
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A U.S.-based aircraft, the B747-400 SuperTanker, is flying over devastated areas in Bolivia to help put out the blazes and protect forests.
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And he suggested without any evidence that non-governmental organizations deliberately started the blazes in the Amazon to punish him for cutting their funding.
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Four firefighters were wounded in the department of Hérault, west of Marseille, where a separate series of blazes was brought under control Wednesday evening.
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The fire is one of a series of blazes in western and southwestern states brought about by high temperatures and a prolonged dry spell.
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The blazes stretch from the San Diego area up the Pacific Coast to Santa Barbara County, putting billions of dollars of property at risk.
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Portugal suffered its deadliest blazes in 2003; they killed 19 people and torched around 10 percent of the country's forests across some 400,000 hectares.
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Throughout California, helicopters are dropping water on the various blazes, while air tankers release fire-retardant chemicals to slows or stops the flames' spread.
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The increased death toll comes as first responders battle blazes on both ends of the state, and brings the statewide death toll to 44.
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The massive Mendocino Complex fire of twin blazes burning side-by-side expanded even more overnight to nearly 470 square miles (1,217 square kilometers).
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In Southern California, the biggest blazes tend to flare up when the dry, warm Santa Ana winds blow, sometimes unceasingly for days on end.
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Reilly's work blazes into our most private spaces, slyly proving that human connection might be the most elusive and captivating art of them all.
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It hurt like blazes, and I would have produced a yell of pain and surprise if it had not also cut off my breathing.
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Then the powerful Santa Ana and Diablo winds gave the blazes a boost and helped them spread faster than firefighters could put them out.
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It said those blazes merged in Sonoma and Napa counties and burned nearly 57,000 acres, destroyed 1,355 structures and were blamed for three fatalities.
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Over the past couple weeks, Lowe has posted fiery images of the blazes during his commutes to work as the fire neared Santa Barbara.
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CAL FIRE spokesman Scott McLean told CNN that only one of the blazes which prompted the President's response could be considered a forest fire.
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However, the California fires are burning through grasses and shrubs, not forests, and Abatzoglou was hesitant to make similar pronouncements about the current blazes.
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Discussions are continuing about how the state should deal with the growing threat while also holding utilities accountable when their equipment starts devastating blazes.
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Investigators probing the St. Landry Parish fires were awaiting lab results but view the three blazes as "suspicious," Browning said at the news conference.
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More than Richard Coyle, who brought a brooding ambivalence to the same part in London, Mr. Miller's Lamb blazes with ambition and class resentment.
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In instances where multiple blazes are close enough together and affect the same area, she said, officials consider them one fire, called a complex.
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Blazes flared up and down California, from Los Angeles — where a state of emergency was declared just this week — to well north of Sacramento.
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A century later, America's national parks are bearing a disproportionate burden of climate change as rising temperatures and new weather patterns create mega blazes.
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Fires in Brazil's sprawling Amazon rainforest have receded slightly since President Jair Bolsonaro sent in the military to help battle the blazes last Saturday.
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He added there are "suspicions" that ranchers are behind the forest fires and appealed to the Brazilian people to "help us" combat the blazes.
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Indonesia's neighbors regularly complain about smog caused by its forest blazes, which are often started to clear land for palm oil and pulp plantations.
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Blazes cut through 6.4 million acres of the Siberian tundra over the summer, while 2.5 million acres of Alaskan wilderness went up in smoke.
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The power company described Wednesday's cuts as a precaution, hoping to prevent its electrical equipment and power lines from sparking blazes in dangerous conditions.
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At the same time, the problems stemming from the blazes continue to mount: Australia now has to deal with internal refugees from the bushfires.
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The blazes have killed 29 people, destroyed more than 2,500 homes and killed or injured an estimated 1 billion native animals, wildlife academics say.
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Air tankers typically carry 15,000 litres of water or fire retardant for release over blazes in areas that ground crews find hard to reach.
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The Bavarian State Opera's music director and the next chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Mr. Petrenko embraces the awkwardness, and blazes through it.
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The blazes got going in 23, which the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has now confirmed was the country's hottest and driest year on record.
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A representative for Kidman told People that Kidman and Urban's home is under threat by the blazes, though it is not currently on fire.
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With strong winds stoking blazes, authorities put residents near four of the fires on high alert to flee in case the flames spread rapidly.
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Many of the new standards were motivated largely by deadly blazes like the Triangle fire in 1911, which claimed 146 lives in New York.
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Facing outrage from European leaders and threats of an international boycott of Brazilian exports, the government deployed the military to help contain the blazes.
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This year's hot spots are the most numerous since devastating blazes in 2015, as an El Nino weather pattern exacerbates the annual dry spell.
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Edna's will blazes up even in this tiny, hanging room of her own, as Virginia Woolf would famously phrase it nearly 30 years later.
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Combined with blazes in Sumatra, at least 800,000 acres of land in Indonesia have burned this year, Indonesia's National Board for Disaster Management said.
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California wildfires settlement: Pacific Gas & Electric reached a $1.7 billion agreement with regulators over deadly blazes started by its equipment in 2017 and 2018.
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Morrison has been criticized for his response to the fires, particularly after his decision to go on vacation in Hawaii after the blazes began.
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The fires likely started naturally, though experts think human-caused climate disruption has exacerbated hot arid conditions that fuel the growth of such blazes.
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The fires forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes across southeast Australia Friday as crisis caused by the vicious blazes continued to escalate.
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Dry lightning has already been blamed for igniting the majority of blazes in Australia's current bushfire season, which has been unprecedented in its severity.
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Castellnou said that many experts initially though that the ferocious blazes in Europe, California and Australia in 2009 and 2012 were perhaps freak phenomena.
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The prime minister has already said up to $4,200 will go to each of the volunteer firefighters battling blazes for more than 10 days.
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Air tankers typically carry 15,000 liters of water or fire retardant for release over blazes in areas that ground crews find hard to reach.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican, has blamed poor forest management in California for massive blazes in the Golden State, angering its Democratic leaders.
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Thousands of weary firefighters, who have been battling bushfires for a month, were on Saturday fighting nearly 403 blazes in New South Wales state.
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The agency also has an additional $472 million devoted to wildfire relief related to the blazes in Southern California and to prepare for Irma.
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The country relies heavily on its volunteer firefighters, who in some cases have been putting in 16-hour days to help tackle the blazes.
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And in June, the company paid $1 billion in damages to local governments for blazes linked to its power lines, poles and other equipment.
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This week, more than 1,210 firefighters have been battling more than 21 blazes in four states as dangerous fire conditions and record temperatures persist.
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This year the roster included a firefighter who helped battle blazes in California and the parents of teens killed by the MS-13 gang.
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Australia has been fighting wildfires for weeks, with blazes destroying more than 700 homes and nearly 3 million acres (1.2 million hectares) of bushland.
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That could stoke several blazes burning in the Los Angeles area that have already caused, according to local media, about 280,250 people to evacuate.
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These swaths of forest were burned by 21968's Empire fire, caused by a lightning strike, and several other blazes over the last decade.
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Investigators eventually determined that a dozen of the blazes were caused by electric power and distribution lines, conductors and the failure of power poles.
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Despite a coordinated response by firefighters drawn from across the state and around the country, several major blazes are still raging throughout Northern California.
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The city of Santa Rosa and Sonoma and Napa Counties, which were hard hit by blazes in 2017, are among the localities that settled.
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As of Sunday, firefighters managed to contain 45 percent of the blazes, which collectively cover an area larger than New York City and Boston combined.
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At least 277 people are confirmed to have died in the blazes, many from the devastated town of Paradise in the north of the state.
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Hundreds of evacuees fled to beaches far to the north of the fires, some sleeping on the sand on the first night of the blazes.
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The blazes left behind scenes of utter ruin, with homes and businesses reduced to charred wreckage and the winds also spreading large amounts of ash.
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Thousands have been ordered to evacuate since the massive blazes broke our last week, leaving many fleeing for their lives from the fast-moving flames.
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So how in blue blazes did Robert Kraft and Tom Brady end up on stage, accepting their fifth Lombardi Trophy in an avalanche of confetti?
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"He didn't accuse the yellow vests of causing the first fire and makes no link between the two blazes," one of Delpech's associates told Reuters.
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The Thomas Fire, which is just one of several blazes burning in Southern California, had scorched 143,000 acres by Friday evening and was 10% contained.
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And weather conditions at the start of the outages looked eerily similar to those that set off 2017 Northern California blazes that killed 44 people.
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Numerous environmentalists have said the blazes were likely set by cattle ranchers and farmers in an attempt to clear the land for their own use.
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The hedgehog blazes through neon cityscapes, requiring your input at just the right time to avoid an enemy or obstacle and keep that momentum going.
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The deadliest of those blazes was the Tubbs fire, which grew to 35,000 acres as it destroyed more than 5,600 buildings and killed 22 people.
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By late morning there were no active fires in the Santa Clarita Hills, just the smoldering remnants of blazes that died down with the winds.
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California's wildfire siege continues, and may yet worsen Monday and Tuesday as thousands of firefighters continue to battle massive blazes up and down the state.
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Tens of thousands of people have fled raging wildfires in California as powerful winds and dry conditions make tackling the blazes extremely difficult for firefighters.
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Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson Peter Sanders told BuzzFeed News that his agency does not track how many are blazes are connected to homeless communities.
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The blazes, which stretch from San Diego County to Southern Oregon, have already claimed 8 lives, and destroyed more than 113,000 buildings, according to TIME.
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And the chance of more fires, as big and destructive as this series of blazes, will remain high, at least until the region gets rain.
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Whether swine fever smoulders or blazes across China's farm-country, it has already exposed the striking political weakness and isolation of the country's small farmers.
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According to India's environment minister Prakash Javadekar, 70% of the blazes had been doused by May 2 and their numbers reduced from 1,200 to 303.
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In 2006, Steven Hammond started another prescribed fire in response to several blazes ignited by a lightning storm near his family's field of winter feed.
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The state is seeing a trend toward more damaging wildfire seasons, with 14 of the 20 largest blazes on record occurring since they year 2000.
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"He didn't accuse the 'yellow vests' of causing the first fire and makes no link between the two blazes," an associate of Delpech told Reuters.
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Covered in eucalyptus and pine trees, central Portugal is frequently hit by summer blazes, with hilly terrain making it especially difficult for firefighters to reach.
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Crews are getting control of a small wildfire in California&aposs wine country county of Napa, but two blazes farther north are raging mostly unchecked.
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Passive protection systems, such as firestops at floor penetrations and fire-rated doors at stairwells, are designed to compartmentalize blazes and prevent them from spreading.
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One of Nychos' peeled-back skeleton creatures blazes across the entrance to the repurposed warehouse that's been a second home to local artists since 2012.
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Forecasters predict wind gusts to become more intense by Saturday night, challenging the 8,700 firefighters who have been battling the fast-moving blazes all week.
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It comes as the state is bracing for perhaps another tough wildfire season after devastating 2017 and 2018 blazes that killed more than 120 people.
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Six states are under red flag warnings, and things won't get better this week, since weather forecasters think lightning from thunderstorms will spark more blazes.
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It comes as the state is bracing for perhaps another tough wildfire season after devastating 22020 and 22.35 blazes that killed more than 218 people.
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"New York's visionary Clean Energy Standard blazes a vitally important public policy path," Marvin Fertel, president of the Nuclear Energy Institute, said in a statement.
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While her high-flying brother blazes a career in medicine, 20-something Shirin drifts from one job and one Brooklyn house party to the next.
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Three of the 70 blazes were given an "emergency warning level", which means that people are in urgent danger and need to take immediate action.
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Internal Revenue Service separately issued guidance on Friday for those affected by the blazes that began a week ago.
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The latest: Forecasts don't expect substantial rains for at least three months, which is grim news for firefighters battling 100 blazes across the east coast.
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California is burning again, but the difference from past years' historically damaging blazes is that this year's fires, driven by high winds, are even worse.
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Warmer conditions because of climate change can allow blazes that crop up during the Amazon's dry season to grow bigger than they otherwise might have.
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There were 46 active large fires spread across 12 states, with 11 new blazes reported on Tuesday alone, according to National Interagency Fire Center website.
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Elsewhere, though, Ms. Al-Maria has a heavy hand with the special effects, so that the mall spins, melts or suddenly blazes fuchsia and orange.
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California wildfires Fifteen wildfires scorched Northern California and left at least 103 people dead in blazes that also burned through the state's beloved wine country.
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In June, PG&E agreed to pay $1 billion in damages to local governments for blazes linked to its power lines, poles and other equipment.
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Henry — voiced by Rich Sommer, who played the ad executive Harry Crane on "Mad Men" — does not dodge falling trees or escape from dangerous blazes.
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Down in Texas, where the sun blazes hot and everything is bigger, they whip up a little thing called sun tea in times like these.
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Some farmers have said that the fires are necessary for farms producing beef and soybeans, and that the blazes aren't as bad as they're portrayed.
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro deployed 44,000 troops on Saturday to combat the blazes after he was criticized for the way he initially handled the situation.
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Around dawn the next day, Wong woke up to a warning about the Southern California fire, one of six major blazes that firefighters would battle.
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In the Los Angeles area, firefighters are battling multiple blazes, including the Getty Fire — though all evacuations from that blaze were lifted Friday, officials said.
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For many, the strain of this recent spate of blazes has been compounded with a wildfire season that has become year-round and more intense.
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The cause of the Camp and Woolsey fires are under investigation but electric utilities reported localized equipment problems around the time both blazes broke out.
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Saudi Arabia said it had brought the blazes under control but three sources close to the matter said oil production and exports had been disrupted.
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Some of the blazes are started by farmers aiming to clear land, some by illegal loggers trying to cover their tracks, and some by negligence.
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As Struzik observes in the most frightening chapter of "Firestorm," blazes often churn up the hazardous remnants of old mining activity — asbestos, arsenic, even uranium.
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The same might be said of Miriam Buether's blindingly gold set (lighted to sear the eyes by Jane Cox), which blazes with nouveau riche vulgarity.
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The central government has sent more than 9,000 personnel to help tackle the blazes, dropped water from helicopters and used cloud seeding to encourage rain.
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The world's largest tropical rainforest is being ravaged as the number of blazes recorded across the Brazilian Amazon has risen 215% this year through Aug.
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And we're only at the beginning of this year's fire season in Brazil—26,000 blazes have raged just this month, the highest in 10 years.
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Why it matters: World leaders at the G7 summit have pledged a $20 million aid package to help affected South American countries fight the blazes.
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Scientists have warned that the blazes, which have been raging at a record rate, could strike a devastating blow in the fight against climate change.
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The fires spell disaster for the local environment and ecology -- and environmentalists and researchers say the blazes were likely lit by cattle ranchers and loggers.
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International help Speaking alongside Macron at the G7 on Monday, Chile's President Sebastián Piñera announced a new two-step process for fighting the Amazon blazes.
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In the county of Jamtland in northern Sweden, 100 firefighters are working around the clock to battle eight blazes, said Lars Nyman, the fire chief.
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Ahead, we've rounded four brands that are collecting and matching funds for these charities that are actively fighting to contain and extinguish these massive blazes.
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Many Indigenous people see their techniques as part of a solution for devastating blazes like the ones that have ravaged the country in recent months.
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The agency also has an additional $472 million devoted to wildfire relief related to the blazes in Southern California and to prepare for Hurricane Irma.
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The four firefighters operated in Alter do Chao region of the northern Amazonian state of Para, where a rash of blazes struck earlier this year.
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Blazes started on Saturday engulfed as many as four more settlements in Rathedaung, likely destroying all the Muslim villages in the area, the sources said.
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Around 210 percent of the firefighters battling this season's blazes in Australia are volunteers, a ratio unmatched in any other developed country where wildfires rage.
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But it is not enough to extinguish the blazes across the country that have killed at least 20203 people, and an estimated one billion animals.
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At least 22020 people have been killed in fires across the country since September, and we looked at the extent and cause of the blazes.
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Australia called up 3,000 army reservists to help conduct evacuations and fight bushfires as a growing number of residents are endangered by the expanding blazes.
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More than 1,000 homes and businesses have reportedly been destroyed by the blazes... and there are fears things could get worse before they get better.
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They will help deliver supplies to isolated communities, evacuate people in need, and assist in reopening roads and preparing fire breaks to contain the blazes.
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Power lines can instigate horrific blazes, but wind-whipped power lines have conclusively lit only four out of the 20 largest wildfires in state history.
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The Australian Navy is working to evacuate stranded wildfire victims ahead of the weekend, when the already devastating blazes were forecast to get even worse.
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The blazes were also generating their own weather patterns, with erratic winds, dry lightning and a significantly faster spread in different direction, fire authorities said.
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Huge bushfires have been burning for weeks across Australia, with new blazes sparked into life in bushland left tinder dry after a three-year drought.
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Authorities have said the blazes will continue to burn, posing extreme danger at times of high temperatures and winds, until the country experiences significant rainfall.
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But preventing new deforestation, the report found, could cut carbon emissions from future fires in half and prevent the blazes from spreading into protected areas.
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In late December, Australia's fires grew even worse, partly because of lightning, embers, and strong winds from localized pyrocumulonimbus clouds that sparked even more blazes.
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The biggest of the blazes is the Mendocino Complex fire in Northern California, which continues to threaten an estimated 9,1003 structures, according to Cal Fire.
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Unfortunately, his early blazes of glory are short-lived: After nearly clearing Normandy Beach by himself, Castle gets sidelined by an incredibly dull legal battle.
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Roberto Palmieri, deputy executive secretary of Brazilian forestry institute Imaflora, is particularly concerned by the recent blazes, which were mostly the result of cattle ranching.
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He also ruled out holding a summit with the nation's fire chiefs and compensation for thousands of volunteer firefighters who have battled blazes for months.
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The blazes are the result of slash-and-burn techniques to clear land, the same practices that led to the fires in the Brazilian Amazon.
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The drinking stations will help dehydrated koalas, who get almost all of their moisture from eucalyptus — much of which has been destroyed by the blazes.
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New South Wales has seen nearly 100 fires, and the town of Balmoral, to the southwest of Sydney, has been mostly destroyed by the blazes.
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Ms. Hamilton, small and powerfully built, blazes across the stage; Ms. Hopkins-Greene, tall and refined, adds a knowing, more mature touch to her sensuality.
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Less rain and longer droughts are the major cause of the blazes, according to recent research by the U.S. Forest Service and University of Montana.
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Dozens of blazes have broken out across the western United States, fanned by scorching heat, winds and low humidity in a particularly intense fire season.
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A mix of military and civilian aircraft deployed to battle the blazes for the air while both civilian firefighters and troops worked on the ground.
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In the Colorado mountains, a wildfire destroyed more than 100 homes, while blazes across the parched U.S. West kept hundreds of other homes under evacuation orders.
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Sitting astride the mighty Drogon, Daenerys destroys the long line of loot trains the Lannisters stole from Highgarden and blazes through her enemies with startling ease.
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Since the wildfires began on Monday evening, at least 214 different blazes have swept through a region extending from San Diego to the San Fernando Valley.
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The cause of the blazes is still under investigation, but local power utility PGE is under scrutiny for a faulty transmission line as a possible source.
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Fire spokesman Brian Eady says the change is the result of both natural fire growth and blazes firefighters intentionally set to control the fire&aposs movement.
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It comes after a visit to the fire-ravaged Paradise in California on Saturday, where Trump suggested people could be cleaning up leaves to prevent blazes.
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Pacific Gas and Electric will pay the funds to more than a dozen state public entities for losses from the deadly blazes sparked by its equipment.
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Massive, out-of-season fires in California during 2017 caused billions of dollars in claims and are challenging expectations of when and where to expect blazes.
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Emergency workers were forced to battle more than 100 fires across the northeast coast late last year when unprecedented hot weather triggered a wave of blazes.
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But because PG&E's equipment is suspected of having caused some of the recent blazes, the company may end up facing another huge bill for damages.
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Here in the Golden State, scrambling to fight these fast-moving blazes has become almost routine, particularly when the famed Santa Ana winds sweep the landscape.
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In recent years, PG&E has been criticized for the role its equipment played in a series of catastrophic blazes, including last year's deadly Camp Fire.
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While climate change increases the risk of wildfires, human expansion into fire-prone areas exacerbates the problem, as most of the blazes are caused by people.
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Firefighters from 16 states have rushed to California, and authorities were reinforcing 3,232 personnel on the Mendocino Complex Fire, which is made up of two blazes.
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Exhausted, with a headache from the smoke, Cushman said on Thursday the size and unpredictability of the fires made rescues more chaotic than in past blazes.
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Firefighters in New South Wales were battling blazes in the state's southeast, where seven homes were destroyed over the weekend, the NSW Rural Fire Service said.
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With winds dying down, firefighters were beginning to get a handle on the blazes that have ripped across parts of Northern California for the past week.
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On the other hand, he blamed California's massive wildfires on "environmental terrorist groups" and waffled as to whether climate change played a role in the blazes.
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Fires on the scale of the deadly blazes in California will be more frequent, floods more damaging, public health more challenged by heatwaves, drought and pollution.
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Firefighters are steadily beating back several massive autumn blazes in California, as heavy smoke from the wildfires blankets much of the state, creating unhealthy air quality.
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On April 10, police arrested 21-year-old Holden Matthews — a white man and the son of a local sheriff's deputy — for allegedly setting the blazes.
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Firefighter loses home Three U.S. Forest Service firefighters were battling blazes elsewhere as the Sand Fire tore a path of destruction through forests, neighborhoods and homes.
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As California enters the second straight week of blazes across the state, at least 74 people have been declared dead, and more than 1,000 are missing.
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While CalFire did not blame PG&E's equipment for the Tubbs Fire, the company had been found responsible for 113 other blazes that year, he noted.
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"We're trying to get a head count," Folger said, adding that about five homes had caught fire and that firefighters were working to extinguish those blazes.
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Experts say this may become the new normal as climate change coupled with the expansion of homes into undeveloped areas creates more intense and devastating blazes.
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The prime minister is aware of potential political repercussions from major wildfires; the deaths of 109 people in blazes last year almost brought down his government.
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The blazes that started Friday are about 100 miles (0003 kilometers) southwest of Redding, where California&aposs largest wildfire is burning and has killed six people.
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New fires continue to erupt in Northern California where firefighters already are struggling to ring massive and deadly blazes that have torched about a thousand homes.
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Those blazes, dubbed the Ranch and River fires, have charred more than 80,000 acres (32,000 hectares), with containment measured at 12 percent for the two together.
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Still, if you want one of the fastest charging phones in town, the 6T McLaren Edition blazes by the regular 6T version and many other phones.
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As of Monday morning, firefighters were battling 11 large blazes in California alone, with additional large fires burning in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
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Several new fires broke out early on Tuesday, adding to scores of blazes that have been burning for several days across New South Wales (NSW) state.
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Blazes have been spurred by extremely dry conditions after three years of drought in parts of NSW and Queensland, which many experts attribute to climate change.
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According to a White House pool report, Trump told reporters that the state and federal partners were working together "very well" to put out the blazes.
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Investigators have not yet determined the cause of the fire, but the years-long drought in California has made the state particularly susceptible to such blazes.
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The NAACP called a string of fires at four historically black churches in Louisiana last week examples of "domestic terrorism" as federal agents investigate the blazes.
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All of the 30 largest wildfires in the state, by acreage, have occurred since 2000; ditto for nine of the state's ten most-destructive blazes ever.
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The largest of the blazes, known as the Thomas Fire, has charred 132,000 acres (53,418 hectares) and destroyed 1843 structures northwest of Los Angeles, officials said.
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California could be facing the toughest wildfire season ever as some 18 gigantic blazes ravage the state — and the historically worst months are still to come.
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Several of the largest blazes are burning next to large lakes that are at or near average levels, and able to provide water to firefighting aircraft.
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"Daniel, what in the bloody blue blazes is happening," Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) asks Agent Sousa (Enver Gjokaj) in a preview clip of the scene.
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Forecasters said winds could be stronger Wednesday, around 20 mph to 2000 mph, and high temperatures and low humidity don't bode well for containing the blazes.
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In the southern state of Tasmania, dozens of bushfires broke out, destroying homes and wilderness as hundreds of firefighters sought to get the blazes under control.
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Dozens of bushfires broke out across the southern state of Tasmania, destroying homes and wilderness as hundreds of firefighters sought to get the blazes under control.
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Matt Villano had to make that kind of choice when he was forced to evacuate to escape the Kincade fire, one of the blazes besieging California.
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While Trump spends his days comparing women to dogs, and tweets nonsense about rivers flowing to the sea, the biggest wildfire in California history blazes away.
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Though Siberia is sparsely populated — it's home to just a quarter of Russia's population — these blazes are alarmingly close to cities and are impacting people's health.
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The smoke from the blazes now shrouds an area larger than the European Union and is moving into the Arctic, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
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