Water drops used on Georgia sugar fire
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A helicopter dumped thousands of gallons of river water Monday onto a gutted sugar refinery where six workers died and two remained missing after an explosion that burned more deeply than officials first suspected.
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Up to 100 workers injured in an explosion at a sugar refinery in  Georgia
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By Jim Johnson, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 25--When the Petersens' well ran dry in June, the family dealt with the lack of water the best they could.   The Prunedale residents spent hundreds of dollars for thousands of gallons of water to be trucked to their home.
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Firefighters gained ground Sunday against a wildfire that has burned more than 200 square miles in the Los Padres National Forest, aided by calmer winds and aircraft dropping water and fire-smothering chemicals.
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By SAM HITT AND SARAH WILLIAMS  The Santa Fe Fire Department plans to clear vegetation from nearly 100 acres of public open space to reduce hazardous fuels near the Dale Ball trails.   The Forest Service wants to extend clearing from Hyde Park all the way to the Santa Fe Ski Area.
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By LOVELL-SMITH Mary  Canterbury's rural firefighters are calling on residents to clean up their gardens after the cool, wet spring, which, says spokesman Tony Teeling, has resulted in excessive vegetation growth and significantly increasing fire risk.
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Specialists arrived Tuesday to help extinguish a five-day-old sugar-refinery fire burning too intensely and deeply for standard firefighting to douse, and officials feared the deadly blaze could once again trigger explosions.
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By Curtis Morgan, Ani Martinez and Logan Jaffe, The Miami Herald  Mar. 14--For the first time since 2001, South Florida homeowners and businesses will soon be under orders to use less water.
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WAYCROSS, Ga.  -- Tropical Storm Barry and its remnants gave a much-needed soaking to thousands of acres of burning swamp and timberland in northern Florida and southeastern Georgia.
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Up to 100 people were injured in an explosion at a sugar refinery in the U.S. state of Georgia, the Savannah-Chatham police department said.
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By AP Wire Service  BIG TIMBER, Mont.  -- Lower temperatures and some overnight rain helped slow an enormous wildfire that had destroyed 20 homes and led to evacuation orders for hundreds of people.
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To: MEDICAL EDITORS  Contact: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, +1- 404-498-0070   ATLANTA, June 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Water in the drinking water system for the Tarawa Terrace family housing area at U.S.
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SUISUN CITY, Calif. - A fire burned early Friday at a massive fertilizer plant outside San Francisco, but it wasn't immediately known if the burning materials were toxic.
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Firefighters and homeowners got cooler temperatures and hint of rain Friday to help douse a wildfire that has forced people out of homes and cabins.
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Jun. 17--Firefighters south of Anchor Point kept a wildland blaze at bay Saturday, felling trees, laying hose and drowning out hot spots on the fire's edge, state firefighters said.
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By McKENZIE-McLEAN Jo  Emergency services are developing a plan to cope with a major fire in Christchurch's Bottle Lake Forest this summer.   Last summer, about 500 spectators obstructed police and firefighters who were battling a fire at the plantation.
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By Alexandra Mayer-Hohdahl, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Jun. 19--LOWELL -- Members of the Lowell Fire Department and its Hazardous Materials Team worked early Monday afternoon to contain a substance that had been spotted on the water of the city's Northern Canal.