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US' Phoenix Breaks Heat Record With 113 Days Straight Over 100 Fahrenheit
The desert city of Phoenix, Arizona, suffered a record 113 straight days with temperatures over 100 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) this year, leading to hundreds of heat-related deaths and more acres burned by wildfire across the state, officials said.
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It's A Boy -- And A Massive Wildfire At US Gender Reveal Party
It's a boy! It's a girl! But for an off-duty border patrol officer in the US state of Arizona, it ended up being a massive wildfire sparked by a gender reveal party that went awry.
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Firefighters Face High Winds Stoking Deadly Blazes in US Northwest
Crews battling a flurry of wildfires raging unchecked across the Pacific Northwest contended with high winds on Thursday, a day after three firefighters were killed and four others were injured in Washington state.
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Containment on Northern Arizona Wildfire Inches Up
Firefighters say they are slowly making progress in controlling a wildfire burning in a northern Arizona canyon.
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Crews Battle Wind-Whipped Wildfire in Scenic Arizona Canyon
A major wind-whipped fire burned through a popular scenic canyon in Arizona on Wednesday, ballooning to 4,500 acres (1,800 hectares) and threatening about 300 residences and businesses, fire officials said.
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Deadly Arizona blaze nearly contained as Nevada fire flares up
Even as crews in central Arizona made progress on Friday toward containing the deadliest US wildfire in 80 years, another blaze burned out of control in the mountains northwest of Las Vegas, threatening 400 homes.
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Fire crews to contain 85 per cent of Arizona fire
Fire officials say they expect to have a deadly Arizona blaze up to 85 per cent contained by Thursday night.
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Firefighters gain ground against deadline Arizona blaze
Firefighters gained ground on Tuesday against the sprawling blaze in central Arizona that killed 19 members of an elite "hotshots" crew over the weekend in the worst loss of life in a U.S. wildfire in 80 years, officials said.
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Arizona wildfire: Investigators launch probe into the death of 19 firefighters
Fire investigators in central Arizona launched a probe on Monday into how wind-driven flames closed in on and killed 19 specially trained firemen in a tragedy that marked the greatest loss of life among firefighters in a US wildland blaze in 80 years.
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19 firefighters die battling US fire: official
Hot winds blew a U.S. wildfire out of control, killing 19 elite firefighters in the country's deadliest wildfire involving firefighters for at least 30 years.
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Hundreds evacuated as wildfire rages in Southern Arizona
Firefighters trying to protect homes, a popular national park and tinder dry patches of forest were tested on Thursday as temperatures peaked and winds started to whip up the flames of several wildfires burning throughout the Southwest.Along the New Mexico-Colorado border, the winds pushed one fire toward breaks that had been carved into the rugged...
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US' Phoenix Breaks Heat Record With 113 Days Straight Over 100 Fahrenheit
The desert city of Phoenix, Arizona, suffered a record 113 straight days with temperatures over 100 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) this year, leading to hundreds of heat-related deaths and more acres burned by wildfire across the state, officials said.
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It's A Boy -- And A Massive Wildfire At US Gender Reveal Party
It's a boy! It's a girl! But for an off-duty border patrol officer in the US state of Arizona, it ended up being a massive wildfire sparked by a gender reveal party that went awry.
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Firefighters Face High Winds Stoking Deadly Blazes in US Northwest
Crews battling a flurry of wildfires raging unchecked across the Pacific Northwest contended with high winds on Thursday, a day after three firefighters were killed and four others were injured in Washington state.
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Containment on Northern Arizona Wildfire Inches Up
Firefighters say they are slowly making progress in controlling a wildfire burning in a northern Arizona canyon.
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Crews Battle Wind-Whipped Wildfire in Scenic Arizona Canyon
A major wind-whipped fire burned through a popular scenic canyon in Arizona on Wednesday, ballooning to 4,500 acres (1,800 hectares) and threatening about 300 residences and businesses, fire officials said.
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Deadly Arizona blaze nearly contained as Nevada fire flares up
Even as crews in central Arizona made progress on Friday toward containing the deadliest US wildfire in 80 years, another blaze burned out of control in the mountains northwest of Las Vegas, threatening 400 homes.
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Fire crews to contain 85 per cent of Arizona fire
Fire officials say they expect to have a deadly Arizona blaze up to 85 per cent contained by Thursday night.
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Firefighters gain ground against deadline Arizona blaze
Firefighters gained ground on Tuesday against the sprawling blaze in central Arizona that killed 19 members of an elite "hotshots" crew over the weekend in the worst loss of life in a U.S. wildfire in 80 years, officials said.
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Arizona wildfire: Investigators launch probe into the death of 19 firefighters
Fire investigators in central Arizona launched a probe on Monday into how wind-driven flames closed in on and killed 19 specially trained firemen in a tragedy that marked the greatest loss of life among firefighters in a US wildland blaze in 80 years.
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19 firefighters die battling US fire: official
Hot winds blew a U.S. wildfire out of control, killing 19 elite firefighters in the country's deadliest wildfire involving firefighters for at least 30 years.
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Hundreds evacuated as wildfire rages in Southern Arizona
Firefighters trying to protect homes, a popular national park and tinder dry patches of forest were tested on Thursday as temperatures peaked and winds started to whip up the flames of several wildfires burning throughout the Southwest.Along the New Mexico-Colorado border, the winds pushed one fire toward breaks that had been carved into the rugged...
