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Australia: Tasmania fires rage on as police search burned homes
2013-01-06 10:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australian police and defense forces searched burned-out vehicles and homes in the towns worst hit by wildfires on the island of Tasmania, where more than 40 fires still raged on Sunday. The blazes began on Thursday on the state's thinly populated southeastern coast, amid a fierce heatwave and strong winds. The heat eased over the weekend, slowing the fires, but late on Sunday firefighters issued an emergency warning for residents in Taranna, 47 km (29 miles) east of the state capital Hobart,...
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Philadelphia utility replaces smart meters after fires - " same brand as used by NV Energy
2013-01-02 22:08:07| Semiconductors - Topix.net
A reader sent a link to an October story about Peco Energy in Philadelphia , which had suspended smart meter installations after several incidents where meters overheated and caught fire, resulting in two serious house fires.
Fires burn over a third more land than estimated
2013-01-02 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Scientists currently detect fires around the world using moderate resolution satellite imagery, however a new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds that this tool misses many of the world's smaller fires, which add up. "Accounting for small fires increased total burned area by approximately by 35 percent, from 345 million hectares/year to 464 million hectares/year," the scientists write. They employed satellite thermal imaging to catch fires and burn scars that normal satellite images...
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