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Electrician Suffers Burns While Working at Business Park
2016-01-08 20:55:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
An electrician sustained severe electrical burns from a junction box at a building at a Business Park in Staten Island, N.Y. read more
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Wildfire burns 1,200 acres outside Los Angeles, closes highway
2015-12-27 04:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Firefighters on Saturday gained the upper hand on a wildfire northwest of Los Angeles that burned about 1,240 acres of land, forced the closure of parts of a major highway and led to evacuations, fire officials said. Hundreds of firefighters battled the blaze in the Solimar Beach area of Ventura County and were able to draw containment lines around 60 percent of the conflagration by Saturday evening, county fire officials said. The flames triggered the closure of parts of U.S. Highway 101,...
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California wildfire burns over 1,000 acres, forces evacuations
2015-12-26 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A wildfire in Southern California burned about 1,200 acres of land, forced the closure of parts of a major highway and led to evacuations on Saturday, fire officials said. More than 600 firefighters were at the scene or en route to battle the blaze in the Solimar Beach area of Ventura County, and parts of the 101 highway had been closed, county fire department spokeswoman Heather Sumagaysay said. Reopening the highway, a major roadway in the region, is a top priority, she said. Fire officials...
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Which burns more kilowatt-hours: America's Christmas lights, or Tanzania?
2015-12-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A headline for a chart caught our eye this week: "US Holiday Lights Use More Electricity than El Salvador Does In a Year." According to the chart, America burns 6.63 billion kilowatt hours to shine its end-of-year holiday lights. By comparison, annual kilowatt hours in the developing world are paltry. In an entire year, El Salvador uses 5.35 billion kilowatt hours. Ethiopia is at 5.30 billion, Tanzania at 4.8 billion, Nepal at 3.28 billion and Cambodia at 3.06 billion. (That data comes from the...
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This girl with severe burns only wants cards for Christmas
2015-12-08 17:23:40| Apparel - Topix.net
A little girl in New York with burns over 75 percent of her body has only one wish for Christmas this year - enough cards to fill her aunt's card tree. Two years ago, Safyre Terry's father and three younger siblings were killed in a fire caused by arson.
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