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Tourists evacuated from Sicily as hundreds of wildfires rage across Italy

Eric Leister and Kristina Pydynowski
AccuWeather
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:45 UTC

© Italian Firefighters Vigili del Fuoco via AP
Woodland fires burn near a tourist resort where, according to firefighter reports, some several hundred tourists have been evacuated by land and sea, in the Sicilian town of San Vito lo Capo, southern Italy, on 12 July 2017.

At least 700 tourists in Sicily were the latest to be displaced by the hundreds of wildfires raging across Italy.

A threatening wildfire forced many of the tourists to flee the seaside resort of Calampiso, located on the northwestern tip of Sicily, by boat on Wednesday.

BBC News reports that around 700 tourists were evacuated, while The Local claims the figure is closer to 1,000.

Approximately 10 people sought medical care at the hospital for smoke inhalation.

Two people have been killed as a result of the fires, The Local reported. One man died while trying to extinguish a fire near his property in the Cosenza province. Another man was found dead in the Vibo Valentia province.

Waterspout captured on Lake Simcoe, Ontario

The Weather Network
YouTube
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:52 UTC

A family on Lake Simcoe captured a local waterspout spinning during widespread storms on July 12th across Ontario.

Ghoulish face appears in the smoke rising at Mount Vesuvius

RT
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 10:39 UTC

A photo of smoke billowing from Mount Vesuvius shows what appears to be a ghoulish face looming above southern Italy's famous volcano. The disturbing image was taken as wildfires force evacuations from surrounding areas.

"After millennia the monster of Vesuvius came out," Rosario Scotto Di Minico posted on Facebook along with the image, which shows a menacing face emerging from the pattern of smoke.

Speaking to RT.com he said the nightmarish image was captured on camera phone by Albarosa Scotto di Minico.

Hiker survives vicious bison attack at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

New York Post
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:12 UTC

An Alaska man is recovering after being attacked by a bison while hiking in western North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Park official Eileen Andes said the 65-year-old hiker encountered the large animal on a trail after taking photos of a sunset. He tried to walk around the bison but didn't provide a wide enough berth, the Minot Daily News reported.

The bison apparently threw the man into a bush, knocking him unconscious, Andes said. When the man regained consciousness, he was bleeding from a leg laceration but made his way to the trailhead. When he saw more bison, he climbed several feet up a butte.

"The guy kept yelling, 'help, help, and help,'" said Christopher Velazquez, one of three airmen from Minor Airforce Base who were camping nearby and heard the man's faint calls.

Two shepherds mauled by bear in Romania; 7th attack for the country this year

The Sun Daily
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 13:46 UTC

Two shepherds were seriously injured in a bear attack Saturday in Romania's remote Carpathian mountains, reigniting debate over a government decision to suspend an annual culling programme.

The men, whose injures are not thought to be life-threatening, were tending their sheep when they were attacked in the central Harghita region, according to a local official quoted by the Agerpress news agency.

One of the men was bitten on his head, hip and genitals, the official said.

Romania is home to around 60% of Europe's brown bears - some 6,000, a quarter of which roam the mountains around Harghita.

There have been seven bear attacks there in 2017 alone, prompting anger among locals.

Severe hail storm strikes Watertown, South Dakota

Roger Whittle
Watertown Public Opinion
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:24 UTC

A strong storm system that moved through the Watertown area Tuesday night dropped a record amount of precipitation and some eye-popping hailstones.

The hail - some stones the size of baseballs - also left many parts of town covered with tree debris and many cars covered with dents. Social media sites were rife with photos and videos from the storm and its aftermath.

There were no reports of major damage as of early this morning. The hail did force the cancellation of softball action at the Koch Complex and the second game of the Post 17 American Legion baseball team's doubleheader with Sioux Falls East at the Watertown Stadium.

"Watertown had been in a slight risk of severe weather last evening," said Ryan Vipond, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Aberdeen. "The severe risk was supposed to be farther to the east, so it looks like it developed a little to the south and west of where the main stuff was supposed to be."

Earth opens up under Mexican highway - Sinkhole swallows passing car, killing father and son

News.com.au
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:32 UTC

A father and son were killed when a deep sinkhole swallowed their car on a major Mexican highway on Wednesday local time, officials said.

Civil protection rescuers reached the rubble-covered Volkswagen Jetta lying on its roof at the bottom of the hole in the afternoon after working for more than eight hours on the closed section of road.

The sinkhole appeared before dawn, at around 6am.

A crane lowered rescuers into a yawning hole the width of two lanes in the middle of the highway.

The initial hole was widened in order to build a ramp for recovery purposes.

Dog pack kills 79-year-old man in McCreary County, Kentucky

wkyt.com
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 08:46 UTC

Kentucky State Police are investigating the death of a 79-year-old man who was attacked and killed by a pack of dogs in McCreary County.

The body was discovered Tuesday morning laying in a yard off Highway 1651 near Whitley City in McCreary County. After further investigation, Kentucky State Police looked at security footage and saw a pack of dogs attacking Vinson Tucker of Stearns. The coroner pronounced Tucker dead at 10:23 Tuesday morning.

Investigators found the dogs, which were then put down.

"He was just a good guy," Tucker's cousin Mike Hines said. "That's all I can say about him is he's just a good guy. I hate to see a 79-year-old man go that way. It's just sad and nothing you can do about it."

Marines struggle to shift the body of fin whale after it washed up on Mexican beach

Sophie Inge
Daily Mail
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 08:24 UTC

Marines were filmed struggling to move a huge dead whale that had beached itself on Mexican shores

Footage shows marines struggling to move a huge dead whale that had beached itself on Mexican shores.

The naval servicemen are seen using ropes to haul the animal back to the sea as the beach filled with onlookers to witness the attempt.

The fin whale (Balaenoptera Physalus) had unfortunately died, so they decided to drag it to its watery grave.

The Federal Environmental Protection Agency (Profepa) in coordination with the Navy administration (Semar), quickly arrived on the sombre scene at Nuevo Vallarta beach.

But they found that the stranded whale was already in the advanced stages of decomposition, so it was not possible to extract tissues for analysis.

Eruption of smoke and gas under Pueblo Viejo, Mexico; Residents fear a new volcano is forming

The Straits Times
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 16:47 UTC

Residents in a sleepy Mexican town fear that a new volcano is bubbling under the ground after an eruption of gas and smoke emerged from a field, local media has reported.

According to reports, cracks have appeared on the ground in Pueblo Viejo in the southern state of Michoacan, with temperatures of some 250 deg C registered in the subsoil.

Local residents gathered at the site with preliminary investigations revealing that the cause of the eruption was geothermal activity from an underground swamp.

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Tourists evacuated from Sicily as hundreds of wildfires rage across Italy

Waterspout captured on Lake Simcoe, Ontario

Ghoulish face appears in the smoke rising at Mount Vesuvius

Hiker survives vicious bison attack at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

Two shepherds mauled by bear in Romania; 7th attack for the country this year

Severe hail storm strikes Watertown, South Dakota

Earth opens up under Mexican highway - Sinkhole swallows passing car, killing father and son

Dog pack kills 79-year-old man in McCreary County, Kentucky

Marines struggle to shift the body of fin whale after it washed up on Mexican beach

Eruption of smoke and gas under Pueblo Viejo, Mexico; Residents fear a new volcano is forming

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