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U.S. Capitol Police reported four fires in Senate office buildings Wednesday. All were extinguished by midafternoon, but an investigation continued.
With wildfires raging across the countryside, Greece's government said it has enlisted intelligence and counterterrorism agents to foil what it sees as a deliberate plan by arsonists to destroy Greek forests.
Firefighters scrambled a helicopter to rescue people encircled by flames in southern Greece on Monday — one of dozens of fires that have torn through village and forest across the country, leaving blackened landscape in their wake.
Fires pushed by gale-force winds tore through more parched forests, swallowed villages and scorched the edges of Athens on Saturday, with ashes raining onto the Acropolis. At least 49 people died, and the government declared a nationwide state of emergency.
The forest fires that ravaged southern Europe last month, fed by dry conditions that turned woods into tinder, were some of the worst on record, the European Commission said Thursday.
Siberia is experiencing earlier springs, a study of satellite images has revealed. The trend is likely to be triggering more forest fires, say researchers, and to be linked to global warming.
The flames of passion cost a former firefighter $200 after he and his then-girlfriend had sex in upscale house that was still under construction.
The increase in the number of large western wildfires in recent years may be a result of global warming, researchers say.
Brush fires kept about 1,000 people from their homes Monday, and the heavy smoke shut down parts of Interstate 95 between Daytona Beach and the Cape Canaveral area.
For weeks, church congregants in rural Alabama were on high alert, eager to find out who was burning down their churches. The answer, authorities now say, was three college students who took a prank too far.
Three college students, including two aspiring actors known around campus as pranksters, were arrested Wednesday in a string of nine church fires that spread fear across Alabama last month.
Standing at a charred pulpit, the Rev. David Hand counted the blessings of his little country church on Sunday.
Five small Baptist churches were burned to the ground or otherwise damaged in a string of fires that investigators said were apparently set one after another by arsonists making their way down the highway.
Nodding off in front of the boss during an important meeting is never a good idea, but it happens to the best of us. The vice president of the United States had his moment Wednesday, and it just so happened that cameras were rolling.
This writer really captures what it felt (feels) like to live in So. Cal during the fires. She describes it much more eloquently than I did in my failed attempt to write about it this morning.
San Diego has suffered the most damage in the devastating South California fires. The most evacuations are from that county. Many colleges and schools have been closed since Monday indefinitely.
Katrina, Part II. Brought to you by the Bush Administration, home of cronyism, incompetence, and corruption.In a June report, the GAO report faulted the U.S.
Just like preverbial boogey man of Myth, Fox News sees Al Qeada under every rock. Al Qeada is responsible for the Sunni Insurgency in Iraq. Al Qeada is responsible for Shia Death Squads. Al Qeada in Iraq has been "defeated", except when they haven't.
Wildfires continued Wednesday to blacken the Southern California landscape, scorching more than 400,000 acres and leaving an estimated 1,800 homes in ruins.
Does anybody remember this little news item from the Summer of '03?
....There's a reason fire squads now battling more than a dozen blazes in southern California are having such difficulty containing the flames, despite better preparedness than ever and decades of experience fighting fires fanned by the notorious Santa Ana winds.
The hearing considers scientific assessments of the impacts of global climate change on wildfire activity in the United States.
Despite the destruction of more than 1,600 homes and buildings, massive evacuations and widespread business closures, Southern California's vast, diverse economy probably will withstand this latest disaster with little long-term damage, economists say.
Help the displaced people get a place to stay during the evacuations in southern California
Housing for people displaced by the fires in southern california
"Mega-Fires: They're forest fires ten times bigger than the blazes we're used to seeing. To find out why these infernos are happening, Correspondent Scott Pelley went out on the fire line to witness the burning of the American West.
Californian, long the butt of jokes about alternative life styles but the target of envy by many, has a new problem to contend with. God has moved Hell to a new permanent place in Southern California.
Two percent of the surface area of Greece was destroyed by forest fires this summer, including some of Europe's lushest nature reserves.
The fires in Greece ... and a fire in Rome.
ASKED to describe his job, Michael D. Selves, director of Emergency Management and Homeland Security in Johnson County, Kan., recalls what he once told county commissioners who also posed the question.
PJM Athens: As Greece burns, its national leadership and the media is consumed in an inferno of finger-pointing. PJM Athens correspondent Kat Christopher reports on the lack of accountability in the cradle of democracy.
Vyron Polydoras, the Public Order Minister, said that the Greek antiterrorism squad had been mobilised as he had "strong indications" that many, if not most, of the fires had been deliberately started.
Greek authorities battling forest fires for the fourth day in a row yesterday attacked the country's "culture of arson", which has been widely blamed for the catastrophe.
Fires started by unscrupulous people in Greece have destroyed many homes, claimed several lives and threatened several historical heritage sites.
Forest fires are burning inside ancient Olympia, birthplace of the Olympics, but firefighters have kept the site safe, Greek officials say.
Little over one week into August and the already-busy wildfire season is set to get even busier as continued dry conditions across the West set the stage for large, intense and long-lasting wildfires.
A total of 28 people died and hundreds of homes were destroyed by a series of forest fires which have swept through parts of South Africa and Swaziland since the end of last month, officials said Thursday.
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