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California Wildfire Drives Thousands From Homes
2013-05-04 03:38:18| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Walls of wind-driven fire swept across Ventura County on Friday, forcing thousands of home evacuations, shutting down schools and offices and ravaging acres of woodland as firefighters struggled for a second day to bring an ominously early California wildfire under control. There were no reports of injuries or homes destroyed as the heat abated and fierce winds began tapering off Friday evening. But the intensity and early arrival of the year's first major wildfire -- months before such fires...
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Southern California coast wildfire threatens 4,000 homes
2013-05-04 02:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A fierce, wind-whipped wildfire spread on Friday along the California coast northwest of Los Angeles, threatening 4,000 homes and a military base as residents were evacuated ahead of the flames and a university campus was closed. More than 950 firefighters had built containment lines by late afternoon around about 20 percent of the inferno, which has blackened 18,000 acres of dry, dense brush and chaparral since erupting on Thursday morning. More firefighters were said to be on the way. Fire...
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California wildfires strengthened by winds as hundreds are evacuated
2013-05-03 21:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A fierce, wind-whipped brush fire spread on Friday along the California coast northwest of Los Angeles, threatening several thousand homes and a military base as more than 1,100 dwellings were ordered evacuated and a university campus was closed. A force of more than 900 firefighters had managed by daybreak to carve containment lines around about 10% of the perimeter of the inferno, which has scorched some 10,000 acres of dry, dense brush and chaparral since erupting on Thursday morning. Several...
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California State University, Channel Islands, remains closed because of wildfire
2013-05-03 17:02:00| American School & University
Campus was evacuated Thursday when nearby wildfire spread. Safety at School read more
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BYD to begin making electric buses in California, delivers 6 electric buses in the Netherlands
2013-05-03 13:30:27| Green Car Congress
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