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Sri Lanka Bracing For Environmental Disaster as Burned Cargo Ship Partially Sinks Off Western Coast
At a Glance The fire started two weeks ago.The ship was carrying tons of nitric acid and oil.Plastic "nurdles" from the vessel's cargo have already begun washing ashore. Government officials and environmentalists are bracing for disaster off the western coast of Sri Lanka after a container ship carrying tons of chemicals and other potentially hazardous cargo caught fire and partially sank. Fishing along 50 miles of the coastline has already been suspended due to the incident. "The ship ," Joshua...
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Arizona Wildfires Force Evacuations of Several Communities, Close Highways
At a Glance The Telegraph Fire and the Mescal Fire burned more than 170 square miles over the weekend.Arizona, like much of the West, is experiencing drought.Residents in at least five areas have been ordered to evacuate. Two large wildfires driven by extreme fire conditions in central Arizona have consumed more than 170 square miles and forced several communities to evacuate. The Gila County Sheriff's Office on Monday ordered residents of several additional areas to evacuate, including parts of the...
Arizona Wildfire Burns at Least Five Structures; Firefighters' Equipment Sparking Small Blazes
At a Glance The Telegraph Fire has burned more than 126 square miles and continues to spread.Two homes and three outbuildings have been destroyed.Arizona, like much of the West, is experiencing drought. A wildfire that has burned nearly 120 square miles in central Arizona has destroyed two homes and three outbuildings as it continues to spread. As firefighters continue to battle the Telegraph Fire near the town of Superior, Arizona, they're running into problems with the public entering closed areas...
Fire at San Juan Substation Causes Massive Blackout in Puerto Rico
At a Glance About 900,000 customers were without power at the height of the blackout.The incident is the latest to plague the island's frail power grid.A new company took over running the system on June 1. Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power in Puerto Rico Thursday after a fire at a main substation in San Juan. Some 900,000 customers of Luma Energy, which took over the island's dilapidated power grid just 10 days ago, experienced outages at...
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