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Disasters

Southern California fire burns mobile homes, Malibu mansions

Southern California fire burns mobile homes, Malibu mansions

Two people were found dead and scores of houses from ranch homes to celebrities' mansions burned in a pair of wildfires that stretched across more than 100 square miles of Southern California, authorities said Saturday.
by Associated Press

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'Nothing here': Returning to rubble in Northern California

'Nothing here': Returning to rubble in Northern California

People surveyed the damage and struggled to cope with what they had lost. Entire neighborhoods were leveled and the business district was destroyed by a wildfire that killed at least nine people.
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Deadly fire leveled California town in less than a day

Deadly fire leveled California town in less than a day

Most of its buildings are in ruin. Entire neighborhoods are leveled. The business district is destroyed. In a single day, this town of 27,000 founded in the 1800s was largely incinerated by flames that moved so fast there was nothing firefighters could do.
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At least 5 dead as blazes ravage California

At least 5 dead as blazes ravage California

The Camp Fire has consumed more than 70,000 acres, and at just 5 percent contained, it is likely to burn through tens of thousands more. And it is just one of several major wildfires now cutting a fiery path through the state.
by Colin Dwyer and Sasha Ingber

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Paradise, Calif., destroyed by wildfire, authorities say

Paradise, Calif., destroyed by wildfire, authorities say

The entire town of 27,000 people was evacuated in front of the wildfire in Northern California. The fire is the latest in a string of disastrous wildfires to hit the state in the past year.
by Ezra David Romero and Chris Hagan

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Runaway train blazes through Western Australia for more than 50 miles

Runaway train blazes through Western Australia for more than 50 miles

The train had nobody on it. It was eventually deliberately derailed, creating a dramatic crash scene with huge lengths of crumpled, twisted metal on the desert sand next to the train track.

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Hundreds gather for vigil for Girl Scouts, parent killed in Wisconsin crash

Hundreds gather for vigil for Girl Scouts, parent killed in Wisconsin crash

Hundreds of community members gathered outside an elementary school in Chippewa Falls, Wis., on Sunday night to remember three Girl Scouts and a parent who were killed in a hit-and-run crash over the weekend.
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Wisconsin community in mourning after deaths of three Girl Scouts, adult volunteer

Wisconsin community in mourning after deaths of three Girl Scouts, adult volunteer

A western Wisconsin community on Sunday was grieving the deaths of three Girl Scouts and an adult who were collecting trash along a rural highway when police say a pickup truck veered off the road and hit them before speeding away.
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