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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A dozen wildfires stoked by gusting winds burned out of control in southern California on Sunday, killing one person in San Diego and forcing thousands to evacuate homes from the celebrity enclave of Malibu down to the Mexican border.
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Corpses piled up at the morgue Thursday, and aid workers went door-to-door, checking in on elderly people in hopes of keeping the death toll from California's 12-day heat wave from rising.
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California again urged customers to conserve power as businesses reopened, after the U.S. Independence Day holiday, on Thursday, the third day of the first big heat wave of the summer to hit the West.
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Californians sweated through soaring temperatures even at beaches Monday as much of the state ended the long Labor Day weekend in the grips of a record-setting heat wave.
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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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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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The state appeared to break out of its nearly two-week heat wave Friday, but not before it caused as many as 141 deaths and did untold damage to crops.
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Southeastern Europe baked under soaring temperatures Friday, with nearly 30 deaths across the region blamed on the year's first major heat wave. Electricity supplies, particularly in Greece and Albania, were strained as air conditioning use spiked.
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A merciful easing of the winds fueling Southern California's sprawling wildfires finally gave fire crews a chance to fight back against some blazes Wednesday, and weary residents could take solace in an overriding sign of hope: Just one person has died from the flames.
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Dozens of people across southern Europe perished in a blistering heatwave while storms whipped the north of the continent and floods claimed four lives in Britain.
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California public health officials said Thursday they will conduct a statistical study of deaths from last summer's heat wave to determine whether the number of victims is higher than officially reported.
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Sweltering heat was blamed Sunday for at least three deaths in Northern California, including a resident at a nursing home who died after the facility's air conditioning system failed.
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Wildfires fed by gale-force winds ravaged Southern California, destroying hundreds of buildings and charring 267,000 acres.
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MALIBU, Calif., Oct. 21 -- Nearly a dozen wildfires driven by powerful Santa Ana winds spread across Southern California on Sunday, killing one person near the Mexican border and destroyingseveral homes and a church in celebrity-laden Malibu.
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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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The searing heat wave that scorched the East and Midwest for nearly a week finally showed signs of breaking on Thursday, leaving behind scattered power outages and at least 22 deaths.