burning
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Even if on-the-ground reports of a burning west Altadena had reached the Rose Bowl base, the incident command located there was disorganized and chaotic, the report found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
El Niño began long before humans started burning fossil fuels.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
Footage showed people leaning out of windows as they evacuated the burning building.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
All anybody on the outside seems to know is they are burning through lots of cash, with an insatiable need for more and no visible profits by conventional measures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
Like all those people running around her burning car.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
They were also sent into the streets in 2023 after a wave of truck burnings raised fears of wider unrest.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
"As natural habitats adapted to these controlled burnings, we see the expansion of fire-adapted species such as Eucalyptus, primarily on the wetter, eastern side of the Bass Strait islands," said Adeleye.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2024
However, Ms Noble said protest burnings posed "a real risk to the whole industry".
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
A side note: Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s iconic dystopian novel about book bans and book burnings, which was published 70 years ago, remains on the allowed list.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2023
The fire flared up and swallowed the dry paper, and I found my thoughts shifting to Nazi book burnings.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
