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A detective rescues residents during a fire in Kentucky

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122076) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 29 Aug

A detective with the Louisville Police Department was just doing his job to protect and serve the citizens of his community after a fire happened in an apartment complex on Saturday afternoon August 23. The detective whose name...

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Louisiana resident evacuates 14 campers from the floods in Texas

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122076) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 7 Jul

Emma Foltz who is a senior at Louisiana Tech University (LTU) and is in senior year in college has been a camp counselor at Camp Mystic for three years when she evacuated 14 students at the time of a flooding in Kerr County...

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Prayers For Those Caught In Hurricane Florence!!!

Danna B. @db20747 (43419) • Washington, District Of Columbia 18 Sep 18

Hopefully the worst is over!!! Hope everyone got out in time and R being brought safely 2 a dry place!!! There R some who said they would ride it out! Would you ride out a hurricane or evacuate??!!

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Who's In The Path Of Hurricane Florence?

BusyBoss @Luap1050 (878) 10 Sep 18

Looks like the worst Hurricane to hit the east coast in over a decade ..... How many of you are in the path and are you taking it seriously? Seems to me everyone in the Carolinas needs to get away from the coast! Life is...

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Prayers for Florida

Shellyann36 @Shellyann36 (11383) • United States 8 Sep 17

Hurricane Irma seems to be on a direct path to move straight up the middle of Florida. Prayers for everyone in Florida. I know lots of people are evacuating the lower half of Florida but from what the news is saying, everyone in...

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Monday, Monday

celticeagle @celticeagle (189820) • Boise, Idaho 22 May 17

Oh, I don't care for them myself. Never have. Why ruin a great weekend right? Eighty people have been made to evacuate a trailer park in Eagle. This is a small town a few miles away from me. Their power has been turned off due to...

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Canadian Fire

Nanette Piotrowski @nanette64 (20363) • Fairfield, Texas 7 May 16

To all of our Mylotter friends in the Ft. McMurray/Alberta area; please be safe. The fire has already engulfed 240,000 acres sending over 80,000 people out of their homes. This fire is so intense that the plumes can be seen from...

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Bushfires to be Followed by Thunderstorms

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 9 Jan 16

Some of my friends here will remember I wrote about the huge bushfire that is burning out of control to the north of us. Vince and I are keeping a eye on the government's Fire and Emergency Services (FESA) Alerts and Warnings...

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More Fires in Western Australia

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 6 Jan 16

South-west Western Australia has been hit by another massive fire. Eleven thousand hectares have already been burnt and one town evacuated. Both highways to the capital, Perth, have been closed. The advancement of the fire has...

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The Photo Albums are by the Door

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 28 Dec 15

There is some excitement here at the moment. There is a big bushfire only 3 kilometres from us and it is threatening parts of our little town which is 7 kms away. Some people have already been evacuated. It is blowing away from us...

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Becoming Part of a Phone Tree

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381837) • Rockingham, Australia 20 Nov 15

I've written several times about bushfires in Australia. Over the years these seem to have become more and more severe. At their height the flames are unstoppable. Whereas once people would have stopped to defend their homes, more...

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Do you think that we need to explore outer space?

Pose123 @Pose123 (21635) • Canada 28 Nov 12

Do you think we need to explore outer space and why do you think as you do? What about the thought that this earth, in fact our whole solar system, is not going to be around forever? Will there ever be a time when humans will have...

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Forest fire

GreenMoo @GreenMoo (11833) 8 Aug 12

Early last night the smell of smoke began to intrude on our evening. At sunset the sky against the hills was dark with smoke. By the time I slept my eyes were sore and scratchy with smoke. It's forest fire season again. The...

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Houses are threatened from the big fire and the villages were evacuated..

besweet @besweet (9831) • Ireland 7 Aug 12

A fire started today near my city. Because of the strong wind, it's threatening the houses and 3 villages were evacuated immediately. The fire still burns the forest and it's probably going to continue during the night but the...

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Better to evacuate first than to wait to be rescue..

AngelaMarie @Bhebelen14 (5194) • Philippines 7 Aug 12

Since last night I heard and saw in tv, internet and even local government encouranging and gave warnings to all people who lives near in the rivers and dams to evacuate their house due to possible flashflood and stay in a safety...

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Fires getting closer and closer

IvoryOriginals @IvoryOriginals (12) • United States 8 Sep 11

Yesterday a few little fires a little ways outside of town started, they haven't determined a cause so far. But today it's grown into a beast that's consumed over 2000 acres, 9 homes, and forced who knows how many at this point to...

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to evacuate or not

se7enthbird @se7enthbird (8307) • Philippines 24 Feb 11

if there is a storm coming, or a cyclone or anything like that, that weather people can predict do you evacuate when they say you have to? or do you stay and just make sure you are safe? its hard to decide specially when you know...

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Fire Authorities told me I may have to Evacuate!

jennybianca @jennybianca (12912) • Australia 7 Dec 09

Late yesterday I received information from the Country Fire Association that I live in a high fire risk area. Due to the devastating fires in Victoria last year, where nearly 200 people died, our Governments and Fire authorities...

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Have you ever had to be evacuated?

breepeace @breepeace (3014) • Canada 8 Sep 09

This summer my province has been experiencing a lot of really large wildfires, resulting in a lot of lost homes, and obviously evacuees. In 1997, my family was having a reunion in the southern part of my province. We had...

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Have you ever had a large or dangerous fire near your home?

windymyre @windymyre (210) • United States 4 Aug 09

Today we were going to a concert about 20 minutes from our house. We had to take a detour because there is an oil company on fire. It is less than a mile from my brother's house. The fire has been burning since 3:30pm today & it...

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