LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A wildfire in California has forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes as it was largely undisturbed by densely forested mountains north of Los Angeles that finally burned 50 to 100 years ago, firefighters said Thursday. The frame of a car is burned as a fast-moving …
Read More »Israel stops sending fuel to Gaza over fire balloons
TEL AVIV / GAZA (Reuters) – Israel said on Thursday that it would stop sending fuel to Gaza in response to Palestinians in the enclave launching balloons that had ignited tracts of agricultural land on the Israeli border. A Palestinian worker fills a motorcycle with fuel at a gas station …
Read More »Brazilian Jair Bolsanaro calls new Amazon fires a “lie” – as videos show the rainforest burning
Fires currently burning in the Amazon rainforest could be even more destructive than last year, but the Brazilian government denies that they even exist. On Tuesday, President Jair Bolsonaro called the fires a “lie” – because photos and videos from the region burned the forest. Fires in the Amazon for …
Read More »The Brazilian Bolsonaro calls that radiant Amazon fire a ‘lie’
BRAZIL (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday angrily denied the existence of fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling it a ‘lie’, despite data produced by his own government showing thousands of fires in run the whole region. A Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) member …
Read More »Fire at Rachael Ray’s upstate house saves kitchen
An inferno that swept through Rachael Ray’s upstate New York mansion spared the famous chef’s state-of-the-art kitchen, according to firefighters. Drone footage obtained by the Daily Mail shows the extensive damage caused to the roof and second floor of Ray’s Lake Lucerne home, where the massive blast erupted Sunday at …
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