In August, raging fires in California destroyed buildings at the Lick Observatory but spared telescopes. ELINOR GATES/UCO/LICK OBSERVATORY By Daniel CleryOct. 7, 2020 , 11:30 AM In August, as wildfires crept close to the historic Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, Claire Max watched as live webcams showed flames edging […]
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The garrison, in the remote region of Ryazan, went up in flames as a result of a grass fire, state news agency Tass reported. A Western Military District statement said: “A gusty wind spread the fire to the artillery ammunition storage site. The military garrison’s on-duty fire-fighting team started to extinguish the […]
Two months after a wildfire burned through Paradise, Calif., in 2018, Kevin Phillips, then a manager for town’s irrigation district, walked from one destroyed home to another. Burned out cars, the occasional chimney and the melted skeletons of washers and dryers were the only recognizable shapes. “You started to actually […]
The scale of devastation wrought upon a French town that was hit by torrential flooding caused by Storm Alex has been laid bare in new aerial images. Saint-Martin-Vestubie, 25 miles north of Nice and near the border with Italy, was at the centre of a downpour at the weekend that […]
As the fire approached, the firefighters bulldozed through fields and woods, trying to divert the blaze by depriving it of its fuel. “It was coming west to east, and then it went around the corner and tried to get us from the north,” Mr. Dotzler said. It got within 100 […]
PARIS — French authorities deployed about 1,000 firefighters, four military helicopters and troops Sunday to help search for at least eight people still missing in a mountainous southeastern region after devastating floods that killed two people in neighboring Italy. Floods washed away houses and destroyed roads and bridges surrounding the […]
ALAMEDA, Calif. — California marked a grim milestone Sunday as the number of acres burned during a record-setting wildfire year surpassed 4 million, officials said. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, didn’t provide an exact amount of land that had been scorched in 2020 but […]
The army has been deployed in France and rescue teams are hunting for survivors in Italy after torrential rain and winds from Storm Alex left two dead and 20 missing. Breil-sur-Roya, a French village close to the Italian border, was a scene of devastation with houses buried in mud and […]