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Fort McMurray wildfire now under control
2016-07-06 04:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: The devastating Fort McMurray, Alta., wildfire that prompted a mass evacuation and destroyed large swaths of some neighbourhoods is now officially under control. The fire was first discovered on May 1, and it eventually grew to nearly 590,000 hectares. The fire forced an emergency evacuation of Fort McMurray, with many residents making a harrowing drive out of the city as flames engulfed trees and homes around them. In a provincial fire update issued Tuesday morning, one fire in the Fort McMurray...
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66 Million Dead Trees in California Increases Wildfire Risk
2016-07-05 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Those orange tree patches pictured arent harbingers of winter. They are dying or dead trees in California, most likely the result of pine beetle forest damage. Its hot now in much of the golden state, and as temperatures continue to rise, something else is happening: Trees are dying in unprecedented numbers. A recent U.S. Forest Service aerial detection survey revealed a record 66 million dead trees in southern Sierra Nevada. What were left with is a breeding ground for wildfires in a state...
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California wildfire prompts new round of evacuations
2016-07-02 23:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A new wildfire burning through bone-dry grass, shrub and timber has forced the evacuation of dozens of homes in a mountain community in central California and more houses could be in the inferno's path, fire officials said on Saturday. The so-called Deer fire sparked on Friday afternoon and has grown to char about 1,800 acres of Bear Mountain, Kern County Fire Department spokesman Phil Neufeld said. About 100 houses in Bear Valley Springs are under immediate threat from the flames and had to...
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Thousands of structures at risk in northern California wildfire
2016-07-01 18:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Thousands of structures were threatened and hundreds of people fled their homes ahead of a wildfire ravaging in a section of the Eldorado National Forest north of Sacramento, federal officials said on Friday. Firefighters have been able to carve containment lines around 12 percent of the so-called Trailhead Fire, which started on Tuesday afternoon and has grown to blacken 2,151 acres, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Jennifer Chapman said. The wildfire is moving slowly through mixed conifer...
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California firefighters contain most of state's biggest wildfire
2016-06-29 12:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters in central California had by Wednesday contained most of a major blaze that ranks as the biggest and deadliest of several that are raging in an early summer heatwave. Crews had contained about 60 percent of fire, named Erskine, up from 15 percent on Tuesday, in the drought-parched foothills near Lake Isabella in Kern County, about 110 miles (180 km) north of Los Angeles, fire managers said. A major highway through the area had also been reopened and more evacuees had been allowed...
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