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Hilly terrain, high temperatures and strong winds have frustrated firefighters' efforts to contain the blaze
Hilly terrain, high temperatures and strong winds have frustrated firefighters' efforts to contain the blaze
Catalan firefighters are battling the worst wildfire the Spanish region has seen in 20 years as Europe swelters in the grip of an intense heatwave.
Hundreds of firefighters struggled to contain a wildfire in the northeastern region of Catalonia on Friday that has scorched more than 5,500 hectares of land and forced the evacuation of some 53 residents.
A day earlier, authorities warned that the blaze, which began on Wednesday afternoon, could easily devour 20,000 hectares if it was not contained.
Hellish
Comment: This is an astonishing 1.5 degrees higher than the previous all-time record.
The new record was measured in the southern town of Gallargues-le-Montueux. Before this year the previous record was 44.1C during a heatwave in 2003 that killed thousands.
Comment: Actually, the previous high was 44C, set in Toulouse in August 1923.
2003 was exceptional in that temperatures remained high all summer long, but it was never quite this intense. It is, however, forecast to cool off in Europe by next week...
Health Minister Agnès Buzyn has said "everyone is at risk".
France's weather service has issued an unprecedented red alert for four areas.
Those are all in the south, but most of the country remains on orange alert, the second highest level.
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Manam Island is one of the Pacific nation's most active volcanoes.
Manam Island is one of the Pacific nation's most active volcanoes.
The 10-km Manam Island in PNG's northern province of Madang began erupting at roughly 8:50 a.m. local time, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Darwin.
Manam Island is one of PNG's most active volcanoes, as well as being home to roughly 9,000 people.
The eruption created a large ash cloud reaching a height of roughly 15,240 meters which has since dissipated, with a subsequent ongoing eruption continuing to produce an ash plume to a height of roughly 4,572 meters.
The attack happened on Thursday night on Pine Street, near Inyo Avenue, in Newman. Police say the child was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead after being attacked by a pit bull mix.
The dog has been quarantined by animal control and the investigation is ongoing.
The National Weather Service warned at 6.20 pm that strong thunderstorms moving north through the Portland-Vancouver area would bring "lightning, downpours, small hail and gusty winds in excess of 40 mph."
Becca Shelley said she was filming the storm from a doorway in the Gresham neighborhood of the city at 6.40 pm when the lightning struck the tree.
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Nine people died on Thursday, seven on Wednesday and rest on Friday.
According to the police three deaths were reported from Lathear, two from Palamau, four in Gumla and Lohardagga district. While there were similar deaths in Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Sahebganj also.
Every year 50 to 60 people die due to lightning in the state.
Source: IANS
Preliminary Earthquake Report:
Magnitude 6.4
Date-Time 28 Jun 2019 15:51:31 UTC
29 Jun 2019 01:51:31 near epicenter
Flooding in Novi Beograd, Serbia, June 23rd
Croatia
In Croatia, the country's civil protection directorate (Ravnateljstvo civilne zaštite) said that rain on 23 June caused flooding in Brod-Posavina county including Slavonski Brod and surrounding areas after rivers broke their banks. Basements of houses were flooded, several roads were blocked and crops and farm land damaged. Fire crews carried out over 60 interventions in the area, pumping water or clearing flood debris.
Civil protection also reported flooding in Breznik Našičko, Osijek-Baranja County and in parts of Požega-Slavonia County, where fire crews were called out to flood incidents in Pleternica and Čaglin.
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