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September 3 2010

Crews search for people trapped in New Zealand rubble

Before-and-after images of damaged buildings on Victoria Street in Christchurch, New Zealand.Rescue teams were searching for people trapped in the rubble of a major earthquake that caused extensive damage Saturday in Christchurch, New Zealand’s second-largest city.






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August 2 2010

Gulf crews prepare for ’static kill’

Engineers on the Gulf of Mexico hoped to begin a plan by Monday evening to shove mud into the blown-out oil well at the seafloor, making it easier to end the gusher for good.

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August 2 2010

Gulf crews prepare to start plugging well for good

The only thing keeping millions more gallons of oil out of the Gulf of Mexico right now is a rush job: an experimental cap that has held for more than two weeks but was never meant to be permanent. As soon as this week, crews will be pumping in so…

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August 1 2010

Crews prepare to start plugging BP well for good

The only thing keeping millions more gallons of oil out of the Gulf of Mexico right now is a rush job. As soon as this week, crews will be pumping in some insurance.



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August 1 2010

Crews gain ground on wildfire north of Los Angeles

A Boeing Evergreen B-747 Supertanker drops fire retardant in Palmdale, Calif., on Friday, July 30, 2010. A huge wildfire in the high desert wilderness north of Los Angeles jumped an aqueduct Friday, rushing toward hundreds of houses as firefighters also tried to keep flames from damaging power lines that bring electricity to Southern California. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Higher humidity and lower temperatures helped firefighters nearly contain a wildfire smoldering Sunday in the high desert north of Los Angeles.


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August 1 2010

Crews to start plugging BP well for good

The only thing keeping millions more gallons of oil out of the Gulf of Mexico right now is a rush job. As soon as this week, crews will be pumping in some insurance.

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July 31 2010

Crews gain ground on wildfire north of L.A.

Firefighters spray water on burning plants as flames race across the desert floor in Palmdale, Calif., Friday.A wildfire smoldered in the high desert north of Los Angeles Saturday, spewing plumes of thick smoke into a nearby town as hundreds of firefighters worked to contain the two-day-old blaze.


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July 31 2010

Crews beat back wildfire north of L.A.

Firefighters spray water on burning plants as flames race across the desert floor in Palmdale, Calif., Friday.Fire crews working through the night beat back flames and built containment lines around a two-day old wildfire that has charred nearly 22 square miles of brush in the high desert north of Los Angeles.


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July 28 2010

Inquiry asks: Did fire crews cause BP rig to sink?

Seawater is blasted at the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 21, a day before it sank.Investigators are looking into whether the firefighting response to the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion contributed to its sinking, a Coast Guard spokesman tells a watchdog group.


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July 28 2010

Crews work to cap new La. oil leak near Gulf

Oil spews from a wellhead in Barataria Bay on the coast of Louisiana after it was struck by a tugboat on Tuesday. A crew capable of capping the well is expected onsite later this afternoon. Oil, natural gas and water are still spewing from an abandoned well hit by a barge on a Louisiana waterway near the Gulf of Mexico.






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