Category: forest fires

Southern California Forest Closures Extended Through Sept. 22

September 15, 2021
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LOS ANGELES—Angeles National Forest officials announced Wednesday that the ongoing forest-wide emergency closure order for the Angeles, Cleveland, and San Bernardino National Forests has been extended until midnight on Sept. 22. Although the regional order issued on Aug. 31 that closed public access to all national forests in California through Sept. 17 will be rescinded,…

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Russia Evacuates 2 Villages in Siberia Because of Wildfires

August 8, 2021
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MOSCOW—Russian authorities started to evacuate two villages in a vast region of Siberia where 155 active forest fires burned Sunday. A dozen villages in northeastern Siberia’s Sakha-Yakutia republic were threatened by the fires, according to the regional task force dealing with the emergency. Local authorities were moving the residents of two villages, Kalvitsa and Kharyyalakh,…

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Blackout Fears Power Generator Sales

July 31, 2021
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Californians are rushing to buy generators as worries of potential blackouts—triggered by heat waves and forest fires—linger. “The grid is getting worse and worse every year,” Elite Generators Co-owner Lupaenne Campos told The Epoch Times. “The infrastructure and the repair work are slow, so there’s a lot of averages going on now… Edison is shutting down power…

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Nature Has Healing Properties for Australia’s Bushfire Stricken Forests

January 21, 2021
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Australian eucalypt forests are resilient to bushfires, with 70 percent of plants found to be able to make it through the infernos due to defence mechanisms developed over millions of years, a new study has found. Ecologist Patrick Norman and four other scientists based at Griffith University and Australian National University conducted a scientific research…

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