"Firefighters Wage 5-Day Battle To Save Mt. Wilson Observatory"
"In a mile-high duel, driven firefighters are determined to keep flames from the historic facility."
Source: LA Times, 09/03/2009
Disasters
"White House Initiates Task Force to Restore Damaged Gulf Coast"
"President Barack Obama is creating a new federal interagency task force to coordinate the "economic and environmental resiliency" of Louisiana and the rest of the Gulf Coast region."
Source: ENS, 09/02/2009
LA Blaze Consumes 105,000 Acres; No End in Sight"
"The Station blaze [near L.A.] has destroyed more than 50 buildings and burned more than 105,000 acres of mountainous brush. Little hope of containment is seen as long as hot, dry conditions continue."
Source: LA Times, 09/01/2009
"Mexico Tries To Evacuate Thousands Ahead of Jimena"
"LOS CABOS, Mexico – Emergency workers struggled to evacuate thousands of reluctant slum dwellers as extremely dangerous Hurricane Jimena approached Mexico's resort-studded Baja California Peninsula on Tuesday."
Source: AP, 09/01/2009
Fire Near L.A. Claims 18 Homes and Two Firefighters
"The giant fire in Angeles National Forest continued its slow-motion rampage through the mountains Sunday, causing the deaths of two firefighters as it bore down on the semirural community of Acton and threatened to overrun Mt. Wilson."
Source: LA Times, 08/31/2009
Fire Crews Battle To Save Hundreds of Homes in California
"Fire crews were battling to save hundreds of homes that were threatened by two wildfires burning in dry, explosive brush near La Cañada Flintridge and on the Palos Verdes Peninsula."
Source: LA Times, 08/28/2009
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"Hurricane Bill Gathers Strength out in Atlantic"
"The first hurricane of the Atlantic season loomed far out in the ocean Tuesday, gaining power and moving on a track that forecasters said could take it close to Bermuda by the end of the week."
Source: AP, 08/18/2009
"Firefighters Gain on California Wildfires"
Firefighters have largely contained many of the major fires that forced thousands of residents in various parts of California to flee their homes. Some are already returning.
Source: LA Times, 08/17/2009
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