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Lightning Strike Starts Fire That Destroys Pine Hills Home

wftv.com - June 27, 2006
wftv.com - June 27, 2006
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00 UTC
Orange County, Florida -- Lightning strikes put firefighters on the run all over Central Florida on Tuesday afternoon. There were several reports of lightning hitting homes and businesses. Fire gutted a house on Sarazen Drive in Pine Hills near Hastings.

Firefighters weren't sure if the lightning struck a nearby tree or the house, or maybe both. But one thing was likely, the nearby pine trees acted like lightning rods.
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Lightning Strike Destroys 10,000-Square Foot Mansion


wftv.com June 28, 2006
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00 UTC
Winter Park, Florida -- Lightning from Tuesday night's storms sparked a fire at a 10,000-square foot manor home in Winter Park. Firefighters spent Wednesday morning walking around the mansion along Preserve Point Drive looking for hotspots.

The Fire Marshal was on the scene late Wednesday morning. He said the damage was so severe, no one other than firefighters would be allowed to go inside until structural engineers can figure out how to best deal with the collapsed roof.
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US floods recede in Pennsylvania town, New Jersey on alert

Jon Hurdle Reuters Jun 29, 2006
By Jon Hurdle Reuters Jun 29, 2006
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00 UTC
WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania - Floods in the Susquehanna River receded early on Thursday, lifting the threat of catastrophic flooding in the historic town of Wilkes-Barre, but water was still rising in parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Days of torrential rain followed by floods had killed at least 16 people in the eastern United States by late on Wednesday. With buildings submerged, roads washed out and rivers surging, authorities declared emergencies and ordered hundreds of thousands of people evacuated across swaths of New Jersey, New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

"Yesterday was a war zone in the northern tier of Pennsylvania -- we choppered out over 1,000 people from rooftops, from second and third floors of their homes," Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said in an interview on CNN.
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Guatemala Volcano Red Hot

Guatemala, Jun 28 (Prensa Latina)
Guatemala, Jun 28 (Prensa Latina)
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00 UTC
The Volcano of Fire
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Quake Rocks Andaman And Nicobar Islands In Indian Ocean

11:27 AM, June 28th 2006 by Playfuls Team
11:27 AM, June 28th 2006 by Playfuls Team
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00 UTC
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 struck the islands of Andaman and Nicobar in the Indian Ocean, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said Wednesday.

Local officials called the quake moderate and said there were no reports of any damage.
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Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano registers 50 explosions in 24 hours

QUITO, Jun 27, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX)
QUITO, Jun 27, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX)
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00 UTC
Ecuador's National Geophysical Agency said on Tuesday the Tungurahua volcano had registered 50 explosions in the past 24 hours.

The Tungurahua volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in Ecuador, started its second activity peak this May since the eruption process began in August 1999.
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Big Three cars emit 230 mln tons of greenhouse gas

Deborah Zabarenko Reuters Wed Jun 28, 2006
By Deborah Zabarenko Reuters Wed Jun 28, 2006
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00 UTC
WASHINGTON - Cars built by the Big Three automakers gave off 230 million metric tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the United States in a year, more than the biggest U.S. electric utility, environmental researchers said on Wednesday.

General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler cars and light trucks emitted nearly three-fourths of all carbon dioxide from vehicles on U.S. roads in 2004, the year for which statistics were available, according to the watchdog group Environmental Defense.

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"With just 5 percent of the world's population, the United States has 30 percent of the world's automobiles and produces 45 percent of the world's automotive carbon dioxide emissions, the report said. U.S. cars are driven more and burn more fuel per mile than the international average."


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Storm alert for French Alps

AFP Wed Jun 28, 2006
AFP Wed Jun 28, 2006
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00 UTC
PARIS - France's state weather service has issued a storm alert for the southeast Alps region, warning that hail and strong wind gusts were likely.

The alert -- the second highest on a four-level scale -- was for Wednesday afternoon through to the early hours of Thursday.
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Pennsylvania flooding forces evacuations

MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press June 28, 2006
By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press June 28, 2006
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00 UTC
Flooded NY HighwayWILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Up to 200,000 people in the Wilkes-Barre area were ordered to evacuate their homes Wednesday because of rising water on the Susquehanna River, swelled by a record-breaking deluge that has killed at least 12 people across the Northeast.

Thousands more were ordered to leave their homes in New Jersey, New York and Maryland. Rescue helicopters plucked residents from rooftops as rivers and streams surged over their banks, washed out roads and bridges, and cut off villages in some of the worst flooding in the region in decades, with more rain in the forecast for the rest of the week.
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Nevada governor declares fire emergency

Scott Sonner
Associated PRess
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:00 UTC
Reno, Nevada - Gov. Kenny Guinn declared a state of emergency as state and federal crews put practically every available piece of equipment on the lines to combat dozens of lightning-sparked fires that have burned 125 square miles of Nevada.

More than 1,000 firefighters on Wednesday were battling dozens of fires, from a 57,000-acre blaze burning out of control largely in uninhabited rangeland in northeast Nevada to a complex of a dozen smaller fires around Reno and Carson City that forced evacuations at the town of Mound House along the historic Pony Express Trail.
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