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Inmate firefighters battled the Mountain Fire at Swanhill Farms in Moorpark, Calif., on Thursday.Noah Berger/Associated Press CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California wildfire has destroyed 132 structures, mostly homes, in less than two days, fire officials said Th...
s Berkshire Hathaway empire — is asking several states in which it operates, including California, tolimit the fire damages it’s financially responsible for, the Idaho Statesman’s Nicole Blanchard reports. And as if Western wildfires weren’t bad enough already,...
7. That was what happened when the Peshtigo fire inWisconsinin 1871 wiped out whole settlements and killed 1,500 persons; when the greatIdahofires of 1910 wiped our several million acres of virgin timber in a few days. It happened when the Tillamook fire inOregonin 1933 killed as much tim...
19108/20Northern Idaho and Western Montana87Largest forest fire in U.S. history burned three million acres of forest and completely destroyed seven small towns. 19113/25New York City145Fire In Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fatal To 145 19137/22Binghamton, New York35Factory ...
阅读理解 Wind, water, fire and ice-these powerful natural forces have shaped the land of America in the past.They are still changing it today. The Colorado River slowly cut down through stone to make the Grand Canyon(大峡谷). Long
中石油2016通用英语选读课文59Forest Fires-a Major Disaster森林大火-可怕的灾难 59. Forest Fires: a Major Disaster 森林大火：可怕的灾难 1.The United States Forest Service<林业局> defines a wildfire<野火，山火> as “any fire that burns uncontrolled in vegetative<adj植物的> or associated flammable<...
Over Labor Day weekend, the National Weather Service posted footage of a parade of tumbleweed's vigorously blowing through Idaho. In much of the Western U.S., the weather has been extreme and fiery over the last few days. A major culprit is a massive zone of cold air that swept down...
In towns over 100 miles away day suddenly became night. An ash cloud hid the sun for many hours. Towns and fields in Washington Oregon and Idaho were covered with dirty gray ash.Scientists knew that Mt St Helens might erupt(爆发) soon. But no one could say when. And no one expected ...
But some of the largest historical fires came before there was any government or even human role at all, such as the “Big Blow” (or “Great Fire”) n northern Idaho in 1910, which burned over 3 million acres. In fact, the governmental response to the Great Fire of 1910 was to ...