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The Thirtymile Fire was first reported on July 9, 2001 in the Okanogan National Forest, approximately 30 miles (48 km) north of Winthrop, Washington, United States. The wildfire had been caused by an unattended campfire that spread rapidly in the hot and dry weather in the Pacific Northwest. Four firefighters were killed when the fire cut off ...
The Chewuch River is a river in the U.S. state of Washington.. Its name comes from the word /cwáx/ [čwáx] in the Columbia-Moses language meaning "creek". [4]The river valley was also the site of the Thirty Mile Fire which killed four fire fighters in July 2001.
Brenda Berkman (born 1951 [2]) is a pioneering female firefighter.She was the sole named class plaintiff in the federal sex discrimination lawsuit that opened the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) to women firefighters. [3]
A video shot on Tuesday shows a photographer narrowly escaping the flames and burning embers of the Palisades Fire in Southern California. Woman showered by embers as homes along Malibu street ...
A 10-kilometer (6-mile) fire line was dug, and firefighters deployed 20 kilometers (12 miles) of hose and a plethora of pumps. Canada has seen a record number of wildfires this year that have ...
Hollywood legend Dick Van Dyke and his family are alive and well thanks to some quick-thinking neighbors, who sprang into action to offer assistance as the Franklin Fire barreled toward his Malibu ...
The 2000–2001 Western United States wildfires were a series of unusually severe wildfires that caused more than $2 billion in damage [1] and resulted in the deaths of four firefighters. [2] Overall, 6,966,995 acres burned across the United States and 2.2 million of those acres were in Idaho and Montana alone.
The plague of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, long ignored and underappreciated throughout North America, has become more widely acknowledged in recent years, thanks to consciousness ...