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Colorado officials order further evacuations as flash floods worsen
2013-09-13 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Thousands more people were ordered to evacuate their homes in Boulder on Friday as rain continued to cause severe flooding in the city and elsewhere in Colorado. Several creeks close to Boulder rose to dangerous levels late Thursday, after rain forced many residents from their homes the night before. At least three people have been killed in Colorado, and thousands more have been forced to seek refuge in shelters. Rescuers are struggling to reach people in the towns of Lyons, Jamestown and...
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Evacuations start at some Gulf of Mexico operations on storm threat
2013-08-16 09:39:50| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Some Gulf of Mexico oil and gas operators began evacuating workers from offshore facilities but kept production flowing on Thursday as a low-pressure system threatened to strengthen into a cyclone.
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Wildfire threatens two Idaho mountain towns; evacuations ordered
2013-08-14 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A wildfire nipping at the edges of two Idaho mountain resort towns has destroyed about a dozen homes, prompting authorities to intensify calls to hundreds of residents to heed mandatory orders to evacuate, fire officials said on Tuesday. It was unclear how many of the 1,000 summer residents of the towns of Pine and Featherville had actually left their homes ahead of the lightning-sparked blaze, which has already charred 99,000 acres and is now the nation's top firefighting priority. It is the...
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Southern California wildfire pushes east, forces evacuations
2013-08-09 03:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters gained ground against a wind-whipped California wildfire that has destroyed 15 buildings, injured at least five people and forced the evacuation of 500 homes in several small communities east of Los Angeles. The fire erupted on Wednesday near a back-country road south of the town of Banning, and by nightfall on Thursday had blackened an estimated 14,000 acres, the Riverside County Fire Department said on its website. Four firefighters and one civilian have been hurt in the blaze, which...
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Calgary Flooding Forces Evacuations; 3 Deaths Are Reported
2013-06-22 19:43:49| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Police in Calgary, home to Canada's oil industry, ordered 75,000 residents to leave their homes and closed most of downtown after heavy rains flooded parts of the city.
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