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Los Angeles (AFP) - The captain of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the California coast in 2019, leaving 34 people dead, has been found guilty of negligence in a US court. Federal prosecutors said late Monday that Jerry Boylan, who captained the Conception, was convicted by a jury of one count of misconduct, or an offense often described as "seaman's manslaughter," and faces up to 10 years in prison. During a Labor Day holiday weekend dive trip in 2019, a fire broke out as guests and crew slept below deck aboard the 75-foot (23-meter) wood-and-fiberglass boat anchored off Santa Cruz ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Maui County is suing Hawaii's electricity company over the deadly fire that leveled Lahaina, alleging the destruction could have been avoided if power lines had been shut off. The lawsuit is the latest step in a growing critical focus on the power provider in the wake of the blaze, which killed at least 115 people, with videos apparently showing downed cables setting light to vegetation in the hours before tragedy struck. The lawsuit says there was plenty of warning of strong winds from a nearby hurricane, but Hawaiian Electric and its subsidiaries negligently kept power li...
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Washington (AFP) - After a catastrophic wildfire that killed more than 100 people in Hawaii, eyes have turned toward an unexpected culprit: invasive grass species that have spread massively over the archipelago for decades, serving as the perfect fuel. Drought-resistant, capable of invading difficult terrain, and gradually muscling out local species, they are also a growing threat in the western United States, where devastating fires are increasing. "Invasive grasses are very ignitable. They change the landscape," Carla D'Antonio, a professor of ecology at the University of California, Santa B...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A huge wildfire was raging out of control through the environmentally sensitive Mojave Desert on Monday, with "fire whirls" threatening the Joshua trees that are found almost entirely in the southwestern United States. Around 77,000 acres (31,000 hectares) have been scorched since the York Fire erupted on Friday, fuelled over the weekend by high winds and soaring temperatures. More than 250 firefighters have been deployed to try to quell the blaze, according to the Bureau of Land Management, the federal agency in charge of the area. "Firefighters on the north side of the fi...
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New York (AFP) - Four people have died after lithium batteries for e-bikes sparked a fire in a New York building, officials said Tuesday, sounding the alarm over the skyrocketing number of such incidents. The fire broke out overnight in a maintenance shop for electric bicycles and scooters, on the ground floor of a building in Chinatown. A large pile of blackened two-wheelers was seen strewn outside the charred facility on Tuesday, in a photo posted by New York Fire Department on their official Twitter account. During a press briefing at the scene, the city's fire commissioner, Laura Kavanagh...
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Kensington (United States) (AFP) - Like something from a science fiction novel, with its six golden spires and pristine white walls rising above the surrounding trees, the Washington Mormon Temple has for decades intrigued those barred from entering. Their curiosity will soon be satisfied, however, as for the first time in almost half a century, the temple this month will open its doors to the general public. The building, one of the most mysterious in the US capital, is usually only open to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for whom family, chastity and mission work ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A father and son have been arrested on charges of starting a huge forest fire that burned more than 200,000 acres in northern California this summer, local officials said. David Smith, 66, and Travis Smith, 32, were charged with starting a fire which led to the conflagration known as the Caldor Fire on August 14 near Lake Tahoe, a densely forested area popular with tourists. It took firefighters 67 days to bring the fire under control, during which time five people were injured and 1,000 residential or commercial buildings were destroyed, according to the California fire d...
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New York (AFP) - Police in New York on Wednesday arrested a man suspected of having deliberately torched the giant Christmas tree standing in front of the Fox News headquarters overnight. The 49-year-old individual faces charges of arson after being found around midnight (0500 GMT Wednesday) climbing the structure supporting the 15-meter (50 foot) tree in the heart of Manhattan. The tree then went up in flames, a scene caught on camera. The arrested man had a lighter on him but police are uncertain whether he used any propellant to help start the blaze, the cause of which will be determined...
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Twain (United States) (AFP) - Even as dense smoke from an enormous wildfire blows closer to Jon Cappleman's home in rural northern California, the 60-something man rebuffs calls to evacuate. "A lot of people think we're foolish," he says. But if it comes down to it, Cappleman has a plan: he will fight the flames of the Dixie Fire himself. Cappleman and his wife, whose home lies nestled in a pine forest near the town of Twain, hope they have thought of everything, down to the minute details. For several days, they have used a pump and blue pipes to siphon water from a nearby creek in an effo...
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Chico (United States) (AFP) - Thousands of US firefighters are battling a blaze in California that has grown so big it is generating its own weather system, with authorities warning on Monday conditions could worsen. The flames have grown large enough to create clouds that can cause lightning and high winds, which in turn fan the fire, according to experts. Around 5,400 firefighters have been struggling to contain the inferno, which was just 22 percent contained late Monday, the California fire and forestries department reported. "If these clouds get tall enough they do have the potential to p...
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