Fire season in Australia is always dangerous -- the 2009 Black Saturday fires killed 173 people in Victoria, making it the deadliest bushfire disaster on record. But conditions have been unusually bad this year, making fires burn more strongly and making firefighting conditions particularly difficult...
James Watson and Francis Crick were credited with the discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, which won them a Nobel Prize in 1962, but they would not have been able to do so without the help of a pioneering female scientist. Rosalind Franklin's expertise in X-ray diffraction techniques ...
A hostage(人质)situation occurred , and didn’t end until authorities used a vehicle armed to teeth to break down the door of the building and kill the gunman at around 5 am . Sunday morning’s attack surpasses the shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007 and Sndy Hook Elementary School in ...
The National Weather Service has been clear and consistent about the risk, today and in the lead-up to this event: An extremely dangerous situation is unfolding in southern California tonight. Stay aware of your environment and leave immediately if asked to do so by your local emergency official...
Victoria has been less badly affected than neighboring state New South Wales (NSW) this fire season, with just three deaths and 244 homes destroyed. However over the past month the situation there has significantly worsened. Thousands of visitors and residents have fled fire-prone areas in the ...
This event saw at least 40 agencies pull together to contain the fire and assist affected communities in what would eventually be a 59-day firefighting campaign. Such was the enormity of the fire situation that, in an Australian first, Victoria requested assistance from the United States and ...
The National Weather Service has been clear and consistent about the risk, today and in the lead-up to this event: An extremely dangerous situation is unfolding in southern California tonight. Stay aware of your environment and leave immediately if asked to do so by your local emergency official...
Red flag warnings for a "particularly dangerous situation" had been dropped yesterday due to lower-than-expected winds. They are now back in place and cover large parts of southern California, with the NWS cautioning for gusts of up to 50mph...
The National Weather Service has been clear and consistent about the risk, today and in the lead-up to this event: An extremely dangerous situation is unfolding in southern California tonight. Stay aware of your environment and leave immediately if asked to do so by your local emergency official...
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