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Hundreds flee as two California wildfires threaten homes
2014-07-27 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Fire crews were battling two fast-moving wildfires in California that threatened many homes and forced hundreds of evacuations, officials said. A fire in the Sacramento region had mushroomed to about 4,000 acres by late Saturday, while a blaze that began in the afternoon around Yosemite National Park threatened a small community. The so-called Sand Fire began Friday in the Sierra Nevada foothills and has since raced through more than 6 square miles of drought-stricken grasslands east of Sacramento....
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Tinderbox Explodes in Wildfires Across Northwest
2014-07-22 06:44:27| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: A cool, wet spring that drew out luxuriant growth in parts of the Pacific Northwest, followed by a ferociously hot and dry early summer, has created a fire-season tinderbox across the Pacific Northwest that exploded over the past week with dozens of wildfires burning hundreds of thousands of acres and forcing thousands of residents from their homes. More than 3,500 people, including fire crews from all over the country and National Guard troops in Washington and Oregon, have been battling the...
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Washington state wildfires force evacuation of town, destroy homes
2014-07-18 20:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A wildfire burning out of control in Washington states Cascade Mountains destroyed at least 35 homes and forced the evacuation of an entire town early on Friday, as firefighters faced another tough day battling the blaze amid drought-like conditions. Four separate fires triggered by lightning in the Methow Valley merged into two on Thursday, quickly scorching 15 miles of land and sending flames encroaching on the central Washington town of Pateros, some 120 miles northeast of Seattle, local emergency...
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Wildfires Intensify in Pacific Northwest as Winds Rise
2014-07-18 19:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: More than two dozen wildfires in Oregon and Washington, sparked by lightning strikes last weekend and spurred by hot, dry conditions and strong winds, are expected to intensify Friday. Hundreds of people have been evacuated and about 1,000 homes have been threatened as more than 300,000 acres burn. "We're going to have another windy day today, so we expect more fire growth, but we're doing the best we can to contain them," says Ken Frederick, a spokesperson with the National Interagency Fire Center...
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Tthreat of wildfires is already above normal in Western states
2014-07-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: A years-long drought and a warmer-than-average winter have Western states worried that they face extraordinary challenges in what by many estimates will be a record fire season. The National Interagency Fire Center says the threat of wildfires is already above normal in much of Oregon and California, and the high desert in Washington, Idaho and Nevada. Parts of Arizona remain under heightened threat, too. The drought that has parched Western states over the last three years has led to dangerous...
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