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A small part of the Centralia mine fire after being exposed during excavation in 1969 Steam rising through a fissure in the ground in the closed-off area of former Pennsylvania Route 61 in 2010. The melted snow, which covered the ground around it, shows areas where heat is escaping from the ground below.
2003 – Canberra bushfires killed 4 and destroyed over 500 homes; 2003 – Cedar Fire, San Diego, tenth-largest California brush fire that killed 15 and destroyed 2,232 homes. 2007 – Greek forest fires destroyed 2,100 buildings. 2008 – Camden Market Fire, which caused severe damage to one of North London's most famous shopping districts.
1985 Smokey Bear poster with part of his admonition, "Only you can prevent forest fires".. Since the turn of the 20th century, various federal and state agencies have been involved in wildland fire management in one form or another.
Wildfire suppression has had a long and varied history in the United States. For most of the 20th century, any form of wildland fire, whether it was naturally caused or otherwise, was quickly suppressed for fear of uncontrollable and destructive conflagrations such as the Peshtigo Fire in 1871 and the Great Fire of 1910.
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Washington D.C., Virginia and Florida all reported effects from the fire, especially on September 24, so called "Black Sunday". [17] As in Ontario, streetlights turned on during the daytime, and animals showed abnormal behaviour. [13]
More bushfires broke out across southern Italy and Sicily, as temperatures hit 40 °C in the week leading up to July 13. [12] About 23 wildfires raged in southern Italy on Wednesday, including on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius near Naples. Two were north of Mount Etna, in the suburbs of Sicilian city of Catania on the 13th. [12]
The FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the suspect in Saturday's attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally.
The Black Saturday bushfires were a series of bushfires that either ignited or were already burning across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday, 7 February 2009, and were one of Australia's all-time worst bushfire disasters.