Smokejumpers Grounded By Dry Alaska Fires
In McGrath Alaska smokejumpers face a record arid season with dozens of uncontained fires burning hundreds of thousands of acres. Grounded by weather and winds, crews say they’ve caught only a single fire this year as retardants fail against extreme drought and large-scale blazes.
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Mcgrath
Alaska
Trish Hagervorst-Rukke
Interagency Fire Coordination Center
Fairbanks
Anchorage
Allen Biller
Rhode Island
Hageryorst
Kanuti
Bureau of Land Management
Forest Service
Roger Staats
McCall
Idaho
National Weather Service
Biller
Explosion destroys Monroe block injuring two people
An explosion and fire in Monroe North Carolina demolished a Main Street block, injuring at least two passers by and shattering shop windows. Investigators suspect a gas leak as the cause while several adjoining buildings burned. About 100 firefighters contained the blazes within two and a half hours.
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Monroe
N.C
Main Street
Kathy Phifer
Charlotte
Wsoc-Tv
Union County
Phifer
Escaped killer Bambi Bembenek flees with fiancé
Lawrencia Bembenek, once a Playboy club waitress turned Milwaukee policewoman, escaped from prison with Dominick Gugliatto three weeks before a planned prison wedding. The former officer was convicted of killing Christine Schultz, the ex-wife of detective Elfred Schultz, in a highly publicized case that revived calls for a new trial and sparked a circuslike atmosphere in Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee
Lawrencia
Bambi
Bembenek
Dominick Gugliatto
Eleanor Iller
Lake Geneva
Christine Schultz
Bembeneck
Colonel says Bush knew of Iran-Contra
In a Miami federal civil trial deposition, retired Air Force Col. Richard Gadd testified that former aide Felix Rodriguez told him Vice President Bush was briefed on the Iran-Contra air drop network run by Oliver North. The sworn testimony, read in Hasenfus suit proceedings, adds to questions about Bush's knowledge amid ongoing grand jury inquiries.
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Miami
Bush
Oliver North
Congress
Richard Gadd
Air Force
North
Richard Secord
Washington
Reagan
Gadd
Secord
Contra Supply
Eugene Hasenfus
Nicaragua
Hasenfus
Browning hints at quake chance amid Patented work
Browning, a 72 year old inventor and climatologist, says he did not predict a December earthquake on the New Madrid Fault. He argues public misreads probability and notes his climate work and patents across optics electronics and hydraulics. He cites high tidal forces from lunar sun alignment as a basis for his observations.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Ihen Browning
Browning
Missouri
New Madrid
Dec
Hene
Summa Medical Corp
Albuand Development
U.S
Summa
American Optical Co
Bell Aircraft Corp
Sandia National Laboratories
Oii
Downing Newslettter
Oas
Paine Webber Inc
West Texas State, University
Lee Olson
Almanac
Arizona
Colorado
Olson
Pepong
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T Firm Litei
Mr. Dutton
Felix Rodriguez
Dutton
Rodriguez
Motorola
Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems
Seles
Certeeersity of
Texas At Austin
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