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2 hours ago · Wildfires have devastated the Canadian town of Jasper, destroying up to half of the community and forcing the evacuation of 25,000 people. Triggered by a lightning storm and driven by strong winds ...
1 day ago · Video shared to social media on Thursday shows blocks upon blocks of buildings have been levelled by fire. The video, taken from inside a truck, shows a view of a community forever changed. Where ...
3 hours ago · 2 firefighters were also treated for minor injuries, officials say. At approximately 2:50 a.m. on Thursday, fire crews received reports of a townhome fire in the southeast community of Legacy ...
1 day ago · The 94-year-old British lighthouse keeper died several days after fighting a fire at Rudyerd's Tower, during which molten lead from the roof fell down his throat. His autopsy revealed that "the diaphragmatic upper mouth of the stomach greatly inflamed and ulcerated, and the tuncia in the lower part of the stomach burnt; and from the great cavity of it took out a great piece of lead ... which weighed exactly seven ounces, five drachms and eighteen grains".
1 day ago · Evacuation orders surround the community of New Denver. The entire community of Silverton was evacuated Wednesday night due to wildfires burning in the Slocan Valley, while several other Kootenay ...
1 day ago · Fire crews and aircraft raced to the area to try to get control of the blaze. The CHP has closed Highway 128 in the area. Check back for updates on this developing story. You can reach Staff ...
1 day ago · The term Moor is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim populations of the Maghreb, al-Andalus ( Iberian Peninsula ), Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages. [1] Moors are not a single, distinct or self-defined people. [2]
