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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Hundreds of new wildfires break out in Russia

A charred car stands in front of a chimney, all of what is left of a house that was burned to the ground, in the village of Mokhovoe, destroyed by a forest fire near the town of Lukhovitsy some 135 km (84 miles) southeast of Moscow, Friday, July 30, 2010. The fires have spread quickly across more than 200,000 acres (90,000 hectares) in recent days after a record heat wave and severe drought that has plagued Russia for weeks.
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10:48 AM Monday Aug 2, 2010 Email Print VORONEZH - Hundreds of new fires have broken out in Russian forests and fields that have been dried to a crisp by drought and record heat, but firefighters claimed success in bringing some of the wildfires raging around cities under control. The firefighters got much-needed help from residents desperate to...
Posted by Muhammad Usman Ali at 9:54 PM

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