fires
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Footage Of Fire Whirls Gives A Terrifying Look At The Infernos Tearing Through California
Several people are dead and thousands of homes and other properties destroyed after wildfires descended on California this week, burning both sides of the state and laying waste to everything in their path. The Woolsey fire has reportedly burned more than 28,320 hectares and hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. The…
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Flames Engulf Brazil’s National Museum, Destroying Massive Cultural And Scientific Collection
Eleven thousand years’ worth of artefacts went up in smoke as the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro — one of the largest collections in the Americas — burned down in a massive firestorm on Sunday night local time.
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Fire, Dust Storms, And Scorching Heat: This Year’s Burning Man Sounds Like The End Of Days
Photo: AP Visitors to the Burning Man festival are really getting to live out their Mad Max dreams this year. But it isn’t so much post-apocalyptic as it is just apocalyptic. Dust storms and a heat wave ensured that it was going to be a rough event from the beginning, and now an enormous wildfire…
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Watch This Heroic Captain Use His Boat’s Powerful Jet Stream To Put Out A Massive Fire
Video: It doesn’t take long for a grass fire to turn into a raging inferno that sweeps through entire forests, so a pair of quick-thinking boaters in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, used their jet boat to create a massive rooster tail that helped douse the flames before firefighters arrived on scene.