Fire Crews Build Telkwa, B.C. Dike High Enough to Hold Back 200-Year-Level Flood
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TELKWA, B.C. (CP) - Instead of battling flames, a forest-fire fighting crew from northern British Columbia is battling rising flood waters in Telkwa, just east of Smithers, B.C.
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Firefighters backed by aircraft dropped water and foam on the birthplace of the ancient Olympics yesterday to stop wildfires from burning the 2,800-year-old ruins, one of the most revered sites of antiquity.
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By Howard Buck, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Feb. 15--Local authorities today are keeping close watch on the ongoing Stevenson landslide.
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Nearly 41 years ago, Alaskan Doug McCrae was clinging to a roof with his family as huge waves of debris-choked water slammed into Seward and other coastal Alaska towns after a magnitude 9.2 earthquake shook nearby Prince William Sound.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM and EUGENE TONG\\ Staff Writers  ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST -- With a wall of flames charging through thick wilderness, firefighters wrapped a historic treasure in a metallic guard to protect it from a blaze that has burned out of control since Labor Day.
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By WOODD, Richard  HAWERA and its surrounding communities are on emergency water supplies after a major blowout in the supply line from the Kapuni Stream intake.
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Thousands of people remain stranded by some of the worst flooding in eastern Australia for 20 years.
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Firefighters backed by aircraft dropped water and foam on the birthplace of the ancient Olympics Sunday to stop wildfires from burning the 2,800-year-old ruins, one of the most revered sites of antiquity.
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By JEFFREY, Craig  ABOUT 4500 people will still be able to brush their teeth when they turn the tap on in Waimate West today.   Water could have run out by now had residents and farmers not heeded a call by authorities to save the precious resource.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Mar. 11--The Middle River-Snake River Watershed District has agreed to repair damage it allegedly caused to the Snake River during construction of a flood control project, according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
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Up to 200,000 people in the Wilkes-Barre area were ordered to evacuate their homes Wednesday because of rising water on the Susquehanna River, swelled by a record-breaking deluge that has killed at least 12 people across the Northeast.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo. May 26--GUNNISON -- It all seemed so simple 85 years ago: The proportions were cut and dried. Turns out, they're all wet.
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Residents in parts of Perthshire are warned of a serious flooding risk, with levels expected to rise.
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A forest fire has led to a chance discovery of debris from the impact of a meteorite 1.85 billion years ago, more than 450 miles away at Sudbury, Ontario.
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People in the Cornish village of Boscastle are trying to protect their properties from flooding.
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Residents of Boscastle are counting the cost today of the damage estimated at millions of pounds caused by a freak downpour.
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Water levels still rising as thousands hit by worst floods in modern British history.