Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said a few days after the fires broke out that there was "very little left" of Lahaina, where more than 2,700 structures have been destroyed in what is now the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Green said he expects the death toll to keep climbin...
MUST SEE: From fires to floods: Canada's 2023 was a fury of record-breaking weather Apart from the sheer number and size of fires in 2023, firefighters are dealing with increasingly severe fire behaviour like the proliferation of pyrocumulon...
In August 2003, a disastrous fire destroyed some 300 ha of forest near Leuk in the Swiss Canton of Valais. This extreme event heightened, for a time at least, public awareness of forest fires and triggered various research activities. Forest fires play an important part in the forest dynamics...
Still, it wasn't until a 1981 U.S. tour with Comaneci and the Romanian national team that the Karolyis' worries darkened. They heard rumors during their last stop in New York that they might be detained when they returned home. So Bela, Martha and a team ...
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“we’re running 400 to 500 fires a year. in the heat of summer, five or six a day—and most you’ll never see,” says calfire chief brian estes. photograph: marcus yam/los angeles times save save all products featured on wired are independently selected by our editors. however, we ...
The ship was in poor repair and had suffered reoccurring fires around its sulfur tanks. (Once it put out to sea while still burning.) The cooled sulfur emissions from those blazes had hardened and caked the ship's pumps, corroded electrical equipment, and even shorted out the ship's ...
He is a member of the ZF Friedrichshafen board and chairs the board of Codasip.If the early years of a CFO’s tenure are about dousing any fires, scoping out the challenge, and pulling together the core team, midtenure is when the best finance le...
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The worst wildfire season Canada has experienced on record in 2023 is the most recent example. Since the start of the 2023 fire season, there have been 1062 wildfires, burning a well-above seasonal average of 1.26 million hectares of land across British Columbia (Public Safety Canada 2023). ...