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Nov
2
2009

"A massive fire erupted on an oil rig that has been leaking into the Timor Sea and Australia's government on Monday promised an investigation, the latest drama in a 10-week saga to plug the hole.

Rig operator PTTEP Australasia said no one was injured and nonessential workers were evacuated after the fire broke out on the West Atlas rig and Montara wellhead platform on Sunday.

The blaze started when workers began pumping heavy mud into a leaking well casing. An estimated 400 barrels of oil a day have escaped from the hole since Aug. 21."

www.msnbc.msn.com/...world_news-world_environment
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Aug
31
2009

I've seen the glow of fires 10 miles away from my hillside, and I've watched burning embers dance above a firefighters' command post and settle on that same hill. I've packed the essentials at 3 AM while the kids race their bikes past the Halloween-decorated lawns. I know that October is fire season.

This year, Los Angeles is burning in August, and it's unnatural.

www.dailykos.com/...Angeles-Changing-Rules-of-Fire
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Apr
28
2009

Aborigines once commonly used fire-stick farming to establish a patchwork of habitats in different stages of growth, and to continually create new environments for small game that could be hunted. The practice died out as European colonization swept the continent.

www.popsci.com/...nal-fires-fight-climate-change
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