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    The River Fire was a destructive 2021 wildfire that burned 2,619 acres (1,060 ha) near Colfax in Nevada County and Placer County, California. The fire broke...
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  • Cuyahoga River in Ohio, a river famous for catching fire in 1969 River Fire (2020), a wildfire in Monterey County, California River Fire (2021), a wildfire...
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    Retrieved 7 August 2021. "River Complex Fire Update 08.03.2021". InciWeb. Retrieved 7 August 2021. "River Complex Fire Update 08.06.2021". InciWeb. Retrieved...
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    2021 California wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the U.S. state of California. By the end of 2021 a total of 8,835 fires were...
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    The Mullica River fire was a 2022 wildfire in the Wharton State Forest in portions of Atlantic and Burlington counties in New Jersey. The fire began in a...
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    quickly. The fire leapt the south branch of the Chicago River and destroyed much of central Chicago and then crossed the main stem of the river, consuming...
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    River Fire was a wildfire that broke out from a lightning storm early on August 16, 2020 in Monterey County, California, south of Salinas, near River...
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    street violence. On Tuesday, the fire spread over nearly the whole city, destroying St Paul's Cathedral and leaping the River Fleet to threaten Charles II's...
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  • the 2021 California wildfire season. The fire was initially reported on Wednesday, August 18, 2021, and ended around October 24, 2021. The fire threatened...
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    14, 2021, a maintenance accident at the Chemtool Incorporated manufacturing plant in Rockton, Illinois, United States, triggered a chemical fire that...
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    major manufacturing center, the river became heavily affected by industrial pollution, so much so that it caught fire at least 14 times. When it did so...
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    after a nearby Dixie Road, the fire began in the Feather River Canyon near Cresta Dam in Butte County on July 13, 2021, and burned 963,309 acres (389...
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    The Three Rivers Fire was a wildfire that started near the towns of Mescalero and Tularosa, New Mexico on April 26, 2021. The fire burned 5,854 acres (2...
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    Ocean by Fire Island. Great River's name is a translation of "Connetquot," an Algonquian word for "Great River." Prior to the 1900s Great River was primarily...
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    turned and opened fire on Ajax, which turned away under a smokescreen. It was now clear that Admiral Graf Spee was entering the River Plate estuary. Since...
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    The Mad River Complex Fire was a group of fires during the 2015 California wildfire season. The fires started on July 30, 2015, in Trinity County due...
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    evidence on the fire for decades until his death in 2013. He used the incident as the basis for his unreleased film, Street of Dreams. In 2021, the ABC released...
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    new year, six days after the fire began, monks and others began to transport the bodies of the dead down the Sumida River to Honjo, Sumida, a community...
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    Wildfire (redirect from Bush fire)
    bushfire (in Australia), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or veld fire. Some natural forest ecosystems depend...
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    memorial commemorating the fire was dedicated on October 8, 2012, at the bridge over the Peshtigo River. The Peshtigo Fire Cemetery was entered into the...
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    transmission line in the Feather River Canyon failed during strong katabatic winds. Those winds rapidly drove the Camp Fire through the communities of Concow...
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    St. Elmo's fire (also called witchfire or witch's fire) is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a rod-like...
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  • written five books on fatal wildland fires and a memoir, Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River (June 2021, published by HarperCollins). He is...
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  • On 24 December 2021, the passenger ferry MV Avijan-10 caught fire on the Sugandha River, near the town of Jhalokati, in southern Bangladesh. The incident...
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    away.[citation needed] At the time of the fire, major water sources including the East River and the Hudson River were frozen in temperatures as low as −17 °F...
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    landscape is still prominent. Fall River's official motto is "We'll Try", dating back to the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1843. Nicknamed The Scholarship...
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  • Thumbnail for Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest...
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    wildfire began on June 30, 2021 just south of the village of Lytton in the interior of British Columbia, Canada. The fire destroyed much of Lytton and...
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    firefighters and officers based at 102 fire stations (plus one river station). The LFB is led by the Commissioner for Fire and Emergency Planning, a position...
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    The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) is a tectonic belt of volcanoes...
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