Southern California heat wave kills four
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The week-long heat wave in Southern California has claimed four lives and caused power outages to more than half a million customers, utility and local officials said on Tuesday.
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Forty people have died in a heat wave that has gripped France for nearly two weeks, health officials said Tuesday.
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Department of Health report says heatwave in south-east England could kill 3,000 people
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FORT PIERCE, Fla.  - Hurricane Jeanne killed four  people, filled oceanfront condos with sand and left large  swaths of coastline knee-deep in water on Sunday as it plowed  through parts of Florida scarred by Hurricane Frances three  weeks ago.
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A fire killed four people early Sunday in a two-story house where about a dozen people lived in makeshift rooms, some of them bedding down in closets, the state fire marshal said.
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A tanker truck carrying thousands of gallons of fuel toppled onto a car and ignited, killing four people in a fire so hot it melted the tanker on a busy highway ramp near Fort Lauderdale, authorities said.
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LOS ANGELES - A commuter van tumbled 200 feet off a mountain road Thursday, killing at least four people and trapping others, the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.
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Explosions and fires at a chemical plant Wednesday killed four people, injured at least 14 and sent debris flying several stories into the air, fire officials and witnesses said.
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Four burned bodies found in the path of California's fierce wildfires raised the death toll to at least 12 people, even as firefighters won the upper hand and officials turned on Friday toward assessing the damage.
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Global warming could cause dramatically hotter summers and a depleted snow pack in California, leading to a sharp increase in heat-related deaths and jeopardizing the water supply, according to a study released Monday.
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Scorching heat that has gripped Southern California for more than a week is responsible for at least 14 deaths, authorities said Tuesday.
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GAINESVILLE, Texas  - At least four people were killed by flash floods in north Texas on Monday and several were reported to be missing as the waters began to recede and weather forecasters saw a drying spell ahead.
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Firefighters battling 15 fires across Southern California got a break from slowing winds on Wednesday, but major blazes burned unchecked for a fourth day after forcing the largest evacuation in California's modern history.
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A heat wave has killed 64 people in France, a top health official said Thursday. The scorching temperatures, which have lasted about two weeks and prompted a nationwide heat-relief plan, have recalled memories of a 2003 heat wave in which 15,000 people, mostly elderly, died.
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A huge mudslide crashed down on homes in a coastal hamlet with terrifying force Monday, killing at least one person and leaving up to 12 missing as a Pacific storm hammered Southern California for a fourth straight day.
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Deadly tornadoes tear across four Southern states in a deadly spasm of rare violent winter weather.
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Pyres of victims who were killed by tidal waves burn on the beach at Alappad, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004.