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Fire officials are used to battling large fires this time of year, but a ruinous combination of extreme conditions and challenging geography hampered early efforts.

Industrial-scale businesses will surely rebound, but the rapid succession of ruinous hurricanes may well discourage family farms and small producers from rebuilding, abandoning their livelihoods for less vulnerable ventures.

There could be hidden earthquake flaws in your single-family home in California — enough to be ruinous and possibly deadly in the next big earthquake.

She then took four shots from the back of the green for a ruinous double bogey and then failed to capitalise on an accurate approach to the 16th.

It was ruinous for Woods, who buried his ball in a bunker with his first shot and walked off with a triple-bogey six.