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Houston (AFP) - A US power company admitted Thursday that its equipment may have sparked the largest wildfire in Texas' history. Xcel -- the parent of Southwest Public Service Company, which provides electricity to part of the state -- said it was working with officials investigating the cause of the blaze that charred more than a million acres (over 400,000 hectares). "Based on currently available information, Xcel Energy acknowledges that its facilities appear to have been involved in an ignition of the Smokehouse Creek fire," the company said. Hundreds of homes are thought to have been dest...
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Acapulco (Mexico) (AFP) - Acapulco was struggling Saturday to recover from the extraordinarily powerful Hurricane Otis, which claimed 39 lives and provoked widespread power, water and telephone outages. The picturesque Mexican tourist haunt, which once lured Hollywood stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley, had never experienced a Category 5 hurricane like Otis, which roared ashore Wednesday and made local landmarks built over decades look like they had been bombed. A lack of phone signal has left survivors desperate to communicate with loved ones. Some 200,000 homes were damaged, with...
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Steinhatchee (United States) (AFP) - John Paul Nohelj has lived in Steinhatchee for two decades. For him, the northwest Florida town set among marshes and forests is paradise on Earth, and he won't leave -- despite being in the crosshairs of a churning hurricane. Little does he care about the evacuation order issued by authorities for his county and several others along Florida's Gulf coast, where Hurricane Idalia is forecast to roar ashore early Wednesday. Sitting on the porch of his creaky wooden home, Nohelj appears unfazed by what could be a looming disaster. "I've lived on the coast of Fl...
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Houston (AFP) - Perched on a platform as he painted an enormous wall, Maynor Alvarez felt cramps in his arms and legs and thought he might vomit. He wanted to come down, but the supervisor's order was clear: "Keep working." The crushing heatwave that has blanketed much of the southern United States for nearly a month has taken a particularly high toll on construction workers, who are often exposed to temperatures exceeding 105 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius). And the region is bracing for more heat records to be broken this weekend. "I've suffered heat strokes on several occasions," t...
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Houston (AFP) - At least 13 people have died from the extreme heat wave that has been tormenting the southern United States for two weeks, officials said Friday, with air in other parts of the country polluted by forest fires in Canada. The highest death toll, 11 people, was registered in Webb County, Texas, near the Mexican border. "As of Wednesday, there has been 11 total deaths," local officials said in a statement to AFP. "Ten are Webb County residents, the eleventh death was from a neighboring county that was brought to a local hospital and unfortunately passed away." A 14-year-old died ...
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Matlacha (Estados Unidos) (AFP) - Karen Pagliaro walks down Matlacha's main street, dodging downed trees, debris and abandoned vehicles, unsure where to go in the small island town cut off after Hurricane Ian damaged bridges linking it to mainland Florida. "We feel kind of forgotten," says the 50-year-old teacher, who lost her home to the storm. "We thought they'd send in help, water and supplies and things, and we were told no, just get off." Until Wednesday, Matlacha was a small paradise in southwest Florida. The fishing village of 800 people across two islets was dotted with colorful wood...
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Fort Myers Beach (United States) (AFP) - As Pete Belinda and his wife slowly walked down a road outside Fort Myers Beach on the southwestern coast of Florida, they each dragged a large suitcase behind them. "This is all we have left," Belinda said, shaken and visibly tired. The town, a quiet place on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, became the epicenter of destruction as Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida on Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 storm. The couple lived on the lower floor of their daughter's house, where they moved six months ago, but the storm has left them without a home. "It'...
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McGregor (United States) (AFP) - Suzanne Clarke wades through waist-deep water, struggling to reach her daughter's apartment as she drags a kayak behind her. When she finally reaches the home, she loads her two small granddaughters into the boat and pushes them toward higher ground, where she has parked her car on a freeway. The building where Clarke's daughter lives, in McGregor, a small city in southwestern Florida, was flooded Wednesday as Hurricane Ian thrashed over the community, which is situated along the Caloosahatchee River. "I am very stressed, it's been rough," said 54-year-old Cla...
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Miami (AFP) - Tropical Storm Elsa made landfall in Florida on Wednesday, lashing the Gulf Coast of the southern US state with wind and rain but losing strength as it moved inland. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said the center of the storm, which was downgraded from a Category 1 hurricane overnight, made landfall in Taylor County along the Gulf Coast of northern Florida. Elsa was packing maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour (85 kilometers per hour) at 2:00 pm (1800 GMT), the NHC said. "Continued weakening is expected through tomorrow as Elsa moves over land" on a northern trajecto...
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Miami (AFP) - As it moved toward Florida's Gulf Coast early Wednesday, Elsa weakened to a tropical storm, though it still barreled inland with gusty winds and heavy rains, the US National Hurricane Center said. While some fluctuations in intensity remain possible until landfall later Wednesday morning, the hurricane warning for much of the state's west coast has been replaced with a tropical storm warning, the NHC said. Governor Ron DeSantis estimated the storm would come ashore on the northern Gulf Coast somewhere between 8 am and 9 am local time (1200-1300 GMT), and called on Floridians to ...
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