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Santa Anas are dry, warm and gusty northeast winds that blow from the interior of Southern California toward the coast and offshore, moving in the opposite direction of the normal onshore flow that carries moist air from the Pacific. They typically occur during the fall...
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 ...
Since then, she’s worked on several controlled burns in Northern California, alongside experienced crews. She remembers one of the burns was fast and hot, with 30-foot-high flames that were gone in 45 minutes. Another was a “slow rambling burn.” ...
Ground fires are common in northern forest regions. These fires usually kill most of the trees in their way, for although they bum slowly they generate great heat beneath the surface. 9.有时,厚厚的腐叶和针叶层或是干燥的腐殖土层下面会有火灾发生,仅仅从表面的裂缝中冒出少量的烟。这种地下火在...
The fire season in California, already one of the worst on record, will almost certainly get worse. The fall brings dreaded offshore winds, which stoke big blazes in both Northern and Southern California. Down south, the hot, dry winds are called "Santa Anas." These winds originate in t...
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 ...
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<...
Indeed, politicians are already blaming the US Forest Service for not putting one of northern California’s fires out sooner. “Butte County Supervisor Bill Connelly,”reportedtheSacramento Bee, “said the US Forest Service ‘let this fire smolder for weeks. They could have put it out.’” ...