wildfire
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"Extra resources come in at that point where something as important as RAF Fylingdales is threatened by wildfire because it's literally in the middle of a moor, it's very vulnerable," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Under a 2019 law brought by Newsom to protect utilities from bankruptcy, the companies automatically are deemed to have acted prudently if regulators sign off on their wildfire prevention plan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
There was also a large wildfire in the Cairngorms that led to dozens of people having to temporarily evacuate their homes.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Belgium's largest wildfire in a century was brought "under control" Thursday after a seven-day fight involving hundreds of firefighters in the boggy terrain of the High Fens nature reserve.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
“The deed was done and word of what Prentisstown had done spread like wildfire, starting with the few who’d managed to escape. All men from Prentisstown were declared criminals. We couldn’t leave.”
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
On a particularly tense drive, they are chased by scorching, wind-fueled wildfires and volcanic ash spewing from Mount Etna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
"There was very little interest from the national media," she said, adding that in recent weeks there had been "smaller wildfires in the South that received a lot of coverage".
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Multiple waves of intense heat, fuelled by climate change, have sparked devastating droughts and wildfires in several European countries this year, cut crop yields and contributed to more than 25,000 excess deaths.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Newsom is working behind closed doors on legislation to further protect Edison and the state’s two other big for-profit electric utilities from the cost of wildfires caused by their equipment, the Times reported this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
When wildfires got big, when the wind whipped them up and they grew quickly out of control, that’s when they were really dangerous.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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Earth Science - Middle School
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