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Washington (AFP) - The number of missing persons following the massive wildfire that leveled a town on the island of Maui last month has fallen from 385 to 66, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said Friday. Green made the announcement one month after the fire that destroyed the town of Lahaina, the deadliest in the United States for more than a century. The death toll from the blaze remains at 115 people, but could rise further as a police investigation unfolds, Green said. The Maui Police Department is investigating the cases of missing persons, Green said, noting that "the numbers are getting sorte...
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Washington (AFP) - Disinformation about deadly wildfires in the United States and Canada has run rampant across social media, with posts falsely blaming coordinated arson, lasers -- and plans to develop "smart cities." Allegations that the fires are a deliberate policy to clear areas for urban redesign deploy screenshots of government websites or headlines about everything from traffic monitoring to conferences about new technology. "So what are the odds that we have two fires in two places within a week's time, and both of these places have initiatives to become smart-intelligent cities?" say...
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Kings Canyon National Park (United States) (AFP) - When ferocious wildfires tore through California's prized giant sequoia forests, they killed towering trees that have lived there for thousands of years -- and perhaps changed the nature of the groves forever. Now the US National Park Service (NPS) wants to give Mother Nature a helping hand, planting lab-grown seedlings it says will kick-start the return of these magnificent stands. "The goal is to reestablish enough sequoias in the first few years after fire so that we have trees 60, 100, 400 years from now," says Christy Brigham, chief of re...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Firefighters made progress battling California's largest wildfire of the summer on Tuesday, with more than one-quarter of the blaze near Yosemite National Park contained. The Oak Fire in central California broke out on Friday and spread rapidly, destroying 41 buildings and forcing thousands to evacuate. By Tuesday, nearly 3,000 firefighters and 24 helicopters at the scene had achieved some success containing the blaze, aided by slightly higher humidity levels, which are forecasted to increase further in the coming days. Jonathan Pierce, a California fire department spokesma...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - The wildfire threat to the world's largest trees in California has almost passed, with the blaze now spreading away from giant sequoia trees in Yosemite National Park, a forestry official said Thursday. More than 1,000 firefighters have scrambled to contain the Washburn fire, which started a week ago, and which for days threatened the world-renowned Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. "The threat is essentially almost gone," Stanley Bercovitz, a US Forest Service spokesperson, told AFP. "Currently none [of the giant sequoias] have been killed. You never know, down the road. I...
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Paris (AFP) - The number of major wildfires worldwide will rise sharply in coming decades due to global warming, and governments are ill-prepared for the death and destruction such mega-blazes trail in their wake, the UN warned Wednesday. Even the most ambitious efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions will not prevent a dramatic surge in the frequency of extreme fire conditions, a report commissioned by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) concluded. "By the end of the century, the probability of wildfire events similar to Australia's 2019–2020 Black Summer or the huge Arctic fires in 2020 occ...
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San Francisco (AFP) - A California fire that killed two people last year was intentionally set to cover up a murder, investigators revealed in a press briefing. The Markley Fire was started in Northern California's Solano County on August 18, 2020 near where police found the burned body of 32-year-old missing person Priscilla Castro. Authorities had previously said Castro was reported missing after she went on a date with Victor Serriteno two days before the fire. She was not seen again. "Based on an extensive, eight-month investigation, we believe Serriteno deliberately set the Markley Fire ...
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