KANANGRA-BOYD NATIONAL PARK(Australia), October 19 (Reuters): At work, Morgan Philpott cares for sick children. In his off-hours the Australian paediatric nurse turns his attention to an equally defenceless gro
DAR ES SALAAM, October 16 (Reuters): Tanzania said on Thursday it had deployed a helicopter to bolster its efforts to put out a blaze that has been burning on Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, in
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When a wildfire swept down California's Napa Valley in August, winemaker Patrick Elliot-Smith stayed put, fighting the encroaching flames with water pumps and laying fire breaks around his
MOLALLA, (Oregon), September 17 (Reuters): Nicole West steered her bulldozer through the smoldering forest, pushing logs into the underbrush and away from the wildfires ripping through Oregon's Ca
ALEM, Ore./MEDFORD, September 11 (Reuters): Around half a million people in Oregon evacuated as dozens of extreme, wind-driven wildfires scorched U.S. West Coast states on Friday, destroying thousands
San Francisco, September 7 (IANS): California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in five counties due to aggressive wildfires continuing to ravage the areas.
Emergency was declared in Fr