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Smoke from Napa Fire Blows into San Mateo County
2013-10-04 19:24:08| IT Services - Topix.net
By Bay City News A quickly spreading wildfire burning near Lake Berryessa in Napa County Thursday night has grown to 500 acres, according to Cal Fire.
One $75,000 Tesla catches fire, $4 billion in market value goes up in smoke
2013-10-04 15:47:04| Extremetech
This week, a video of a Tesla Model S that caught fire on the road was uploaded to YouTube. The incident brought Tesla's valuation down 15%, to the tune of a $4 billion drop. However, the fire wasn't brought on by the car itself, but rather, something it hit.
Season of smoke: Changing climate leads to bigger, smokier wildfires
2013-10-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
OPB: Each fire season is a roll of the dice. Some years lightning strikes more often. Other years soggy summers keep big burns at bay. This year more than 4,000 wildfires burned almost a million acres across the Northwest. That might sound like a lot, but it falls below the 10-year average. In the last decade, only one year has had fewer fires than this year. Scientists are quick to point out that no single fire season can be attributed to changes in the global climate, but as summers in the...
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DEQ tells Portland neighbors funeral home smoke OK | Sept. 24
2013-09-25 04:24:32| Waste Management - Topix.net
A Department of Environmental Quality manager attended a Portland neighborhood association meeting Monday night to answer questions about a funeral home that recently started offering cremations.
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Fires, smoke, floods are drawbacks of Alaska's hot summer
2013-08-17 14:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Alaska residents have been enjoying an unusually warm, sunny summer, but the pleasant weather has come at a cost: choking smoke from an extended wildfire season, flooding rivers due to fast-melting snow and glacial ice, and fish covered in algae. Wildfires have burned 1.25 million acres across Alaska this summer, according to the state's fire-management center, the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center. Seventy fires were active on Friday, including a 57,870-acre (23,400-hectare) blaze near Delta...
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