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There’s now video of the gender reveal party that started a wildfire and it is really something

sudshr47 November 27, 2018

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Remember the infamous gender reveal party that went so wrong it sparked a massive wildfire? Well, video of it has finally been released, and it as gloriously idiotic as you’d expect. 

The incident happened back in Arizona in April 2017, but now thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Arizona Daily Star the video has been made public.

It begins as off-duty Border Patrol Agent Dennis Dickey shoots an explosive target to reveal the gender of the baby he and his wife were expecting. You can briefly see a cloud of blue — it’s a boy! — before the grass around the target quickly goes up in flames. Smart location choice, guys! Read more…

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Intense videos show the Camp Fire ravaging Northern California

sudshr47 November 9, 2018

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The destructive Camp Fire has already burned over 18,000 acres of Butte County, Northern California as of Thursday afternoon, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. 

Since starting at 6:30 a.m. PT just north of Sacramento, the fire is consuming 80 acres per minute — photos show that smoke is already reaching the Bay Area about 150 miles away.

A combination of profoundly dry vegetation and heavy winds are contributing to the fire’s explosive pattern. Over the course of the day, evacuation orders were issued in Paradise, Concow, and Pulga, towns about 200 miles north of San Francisco.  Read more…

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American and Canadian firefighters share a nice moment while fighting wildfire at the border

sudshr47 September 4, 2018

It’s been a tough slog for firefighters battling a the Horns Mountain fire along the United States-Canada border, but it also provided a moment of levity.
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As California burns, climate goals may go up in smoke — even after the flames are out

sudshr47 August 8, 2018

As crews across California battle more than a dozen wildfires — including the largest in state history — the blazes are spewing enough carbon into the air to undo some of the good done by the state’s climate policies.

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A wildfire in Ireland has uncovered a remarkable sight from World War II

sudshr47 August 6, 2018

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A Second World War-era sign has been rediscovered after a gorse fire ravaged a hillside on the east coast of Ireland. 

The Irish Air Corps and Garda Air Support Unit spotted that a fire had exposed an old “Éire 8 sign” — a landmark dating back to World War — on Bray Head, in County Wicklow. 

During the war, the word Éire — which means Ireland in the Irish language — was carved into 80 headlands around Ireland to warn allied and German bombers that they were flying over a neutral territory. 

Fires on Bray Head expose amazing World War 2 landmarks. The fires exposed the old Eire 8 sign,which is in reasonable condition. Photos courtesy of the Garda Air Support Unit, which is a mixed unit operated by Air Corps Pilots and Garda specialists@gardainfo @opwireland pic.twitter.com/4vvg3HIjQv

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A mom in California came up a genius solution to save her valuables from the wildfires

sudshr47 August 3, 2018

As the wildfires in California continue to wreak havoc on their communities, one person found an ingenious way to preserve their valuables before evacuating from their home.
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Terrifying first-person footage shows just how devastating the wildfires in Greece are

sudshr47 July 29, 2018

First-person footage of flames engulfing a neighborhood shows just how devastating the wildfires in Greece are. 
A man trying to save his friend’s cat caught the wildfire on video as it burned through the trees surrounding his home. Within the v…

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Western wildfires are so bad that they’re reversing decades of air quality improvements

sudshr47 July 16, 2018

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The consequences of America’s swelling wildfire problem are traveling well beyond blackened, ashy forests. They’re now tainting the air in cities and towns over vast regions of the western U.S. 

Since the mid-1980s, fine bits of air pollution that have been repeatedly linked to heart and lung diseases have diminished in a good portion of the United States — except in an expansive zone of the western part of the country. 

In this region, which extends north from Utah to Montana and west from Oregon to Wyoming, the most polluted days — when the air quality is at its most harmful — are getting even worse.  Read more…

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