Wildfires

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• Yosemite National Park wildfire forces evacuation of hikers – in pictures

  9 Sep 2014: Fire officials called in additional crews to help battle a blaze in Yosemite National Park that forced hikers to be evacuated and sent smoke into the park’s famed valley for the first time Tuesday, officials said

• Yosemite park visitors evacuated by helicopter as wildfire grows

  8 Sep 2014: About 100 park visitors evacuated from campgrounds and trails after wildfire burning for weeks grows unexpectedly

• Yosemite wildfire prompts evacuation order for 300 homes

  6 Sep 2014: Fire broke out on Friday and is 25% contained as an additional 400 homes are advised to evacuate

• Morwell residents have their say on Hazelwood mine fire inquiry

  3 Sep 2014: Guardian Australia: Health problems, a lack of government support and financial impact of blaze that burned for 45 days the main issues raised

• Law firm believes GDF Suez has case to answer over Hazelwood coal mine fire

  3 Sep 2014: Maurice Blackburn says Morwell inquiry’s report raises ‘serious questions about Suez’s conduct’

• Morwell and the Hazelwood mine fire report: the fallout

  3 Sep 2014: The regulatory regime was weak and communication poor but this fire might never have taken hold had GDF Suez done what it should have done

• Fire and water – how global warming is making weather more extreme and costing us money

  2 Sep 2014: Dana Nuccitelli: Droughts, wildfires, heat waves, floods – climate research is linking more extreme weather to global warming
  

• Bushfire centre forecasts increased threats in southern Australia

  2 Sep 2014: Rain patterns raise risk of forest fires on eastern seaboard and grass fires further south

• Hazelwood coalmine fire inquiry report due as Morwell ponders lawsuit

  2 Sep 2014: Guardian Australia: Four hundred-page report expected to criticise Victoria’s health department and the mine’s operator, GDF Suez

• A travesty for trees? Loggers to remove dead wood from California wildfire

  28 Aug 2014: Decision will allow logging on 52 sq miles of forests blackened in the Rim Fire, which burned Stanislaus National Fire

• California wildfire threatens historic Gold Rush town of Weaverville

  25 Aug 2014: Fire sparked Sunday afternoon threatens 150 homes as fire crews struggle to contain blaze on steep terrain

• California evacuation orders issued as wildfire bears down near Yosemite

  19 Aug 2014: Authorities sends orders to thousands of phone numbers over 1,200-acre fire that has burned at least two structures

• Northern California firefighters survive wildfire in personal fire shelters

  12 Aug 2014: Fires threaten hundreds as state issues mandatory evacuations and western US battles blazes in Oregon and Idaho

• Eight firefighters suffer burns in northern California wildfire

  9 Aug 2014: Five inmates from minimum-security facility hurt battling Wilderness Lodge fire that ‘could create a whole new set of problems’

• Oregon wildfire threatens 740 homes as residents told to evacuate

  8 Aug 2014: Wildfire burning in Oregon’s wind-swept Columbia River Gorge has already destroyed one home and damaged two

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