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Badass of the year...
Fire Near AIG Campus, the Houston fire department saves the day.
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Family Comforted By Mystery Letter After Home is Burned Down
They lost their dream home in the San Diego fires this week but found something in the rubble that restored their spirits and their community's hope as well.
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Arizona Wildfire Grows Tenfold as Thousands Prepare to Flee
A northern Arizona wildfire had chewed through at least 4,800 acres by Thursday morning as an army of Hotshots fought back.
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Firefighters report progress on Alaska wildfire
A wildfire on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula has grown to 98 square miles even as planes, helicopters and increasing numbers of firefighters attack it, fire officials said late Thursday.
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The Fire Lab
Massive wildfires cost billions of dollars and burn millions of acres in the U.S. every year, but we know surprisingly little about the basic science of how they spread. At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers reverse-engineer spreading fires using wind tunnels, fire-whirl generators, and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that fire is a mysterious phenomenon, and the physics behind it is often counter-intuitive.
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In the Valley of Fire
How did a well-trained crew of professional hotshots come to abandon their designated safety zone and walk into a 40-foot-high wall of fire?
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20 Years Later, Legacy of a Deadly Colorado Wildfire Endures
In 1994, the South Canyon Fire killed 14 firefighters and changed how wildfires are fought. Then last year in Arizona, tragedy struck again.
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Boy Dies After Participating in the FaceBook Fire Challenge
A 15-year-old boy has died after participating in a game that is circulating on the popular social network FaceBook. James Shores was burned to death after his entire body was engulfed in flames. The #FireChallenge involves covering your body with an accelerant and setting yourself on fire. One’s friends will then video the act and share it on the internet. The imbecilic act is supposed to elicit laughter as onlookers and internet viewers watch the reaction from the party who is on fire.
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Zippo Lighter Tricks
In this video, Rabbi enjoys fast-talking, fast-handywork, and....whiskey.
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Idaho's Biggest Wildfire to Face Extreme Weather
Firefighters have made progress suppressing Idaho's largest wildfire but anticipated extreme fire weather conditions could make putting it out more difficult in the next few days.
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Lightning Starts Dozens of New Fires in Northwest
Lightning has started dozens of new wildfires in the Northwest, forcing incident commanders to juggle crews and equipment Tuesday as a new round of storms approached. Meanwhile, three firefighters who deployed emergency shelters when a thunderstorm whipped up the flames of a Northern...
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The Rise and Fall of the Fireman’s Pole
Imagine this: it's 3:30 in the morning, and you're deep in some pillowy dreamscape. All is calm; all is serene. Then, a piercing alarm whiplashes your senses: you're awake now, scrambling in the darkness with ten equally frazzled men. In a flurry, boots are pulled on, helmets are snatched off shelves, and you're flying down a 20-foot pole with the rapidity and dexterity of a howler monkey.
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Warm Springs woman who set $7.9 million wildfire posted 'like my fire?' on Facebook
A Warm Springs woman who admitted to starting a wildfire in July 2013 told federal prosecutors she started the blaze by tossing a firework out of an open car window because her firefighter friends were bored and needed the work. Two days later, Sadie Renee Johnson, 23, posted "like my fire?" on Facebook.
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Hikers evacuated from Yosemite as wildfire spreads rapidly
Helicopters plucked hikers from atop Yosemite's Half Dome peak and other parts of the national park after a wildfire rapidly spread in backcountry areas.
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Wildfires threaten thousands in Northern California
Fire officials in Orange County work to control a wildfire that has charred roughly 1,500 acres in the Silverado Canyon area.
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Finally, a fire hydrant for the 21st century
A retired New York firefighter invents a safer, smarter, and sturdier hydrant
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SPAZUK fire painter
Video portrait of the very original and talented Steve Spazuk in his creative space.
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Massive fire engulfs apartment units in New Jersey; displaces hundreds
A massive fire at a New Jersey mid-rise consumed 175 apartments and displaced up to 400 residents. Fortunately, no one was injured.
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2 Buildings Collapse in Massive 7-alarm fire Outside Pittsburgh
Several people were rescued from a massive fire near Pittsburgh that reached seven alarms by 7 a.m.
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Containment Up on Fire That Destroyed 40 Homes in California
Fire crews have increased containment of a wind-driven wildfire that destroyed 40 homes, but say they don't know yet when residents evacuated from two small California towns at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada will be able to return home.
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