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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Russia declares emergency as wildfires kill 40

Flames travel along the floor of the forest as a parched forest burns near a suburb of the town of Voronezh some 500 km (294 miles) south of Moscow, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. Hundreds of new fires broke out Sunday in Russian forests and fields that have been dried to a crisp by drought and record heat.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's leaders declared a state of emergency on Monday in seven provinces and ordered authorities to guardweapons storage facilities from wildfires that have killed at least 40 people. A firefighter works to extinguish fire in a pine forest outside Voronezh, August 2, 2010. (REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin) Thousands more have lost...
Posted by Muhammad Usman Ali at 3:50 AM

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