Word: blazes
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While Summers was in New York on Nov. 5, a “faulty microwave” in the kitchen of his house manager’s residence—about 50 feet from his own house at 33 Elmwood Ave.—ignited a costly blaze, he said in an interview yesterday...
Firefighters extinguished the blaze in under an hour, Reardon said...
...pray for rain - but without the lightning - in order to ease your budget crunch. Drought-parched Montana is being ravaged by fires and Republican Gov. Judy Martz has enraged social activists and Democratic legislators by diverting money they believe should be spent on welfare programs to fight the blaze...
Regular readers of the financial pages might be forgiven for thinking the sun has not set for the past few fiscal years. In describing the improving fortunes of teen-clothing retailer PacSun, pun-happy headline writers have frequently alluded to the company's tendency to rise, shine, blaze and heat up. Pacific Sunwear, as it is more formally known, continued the perpetual daylight when it announced last week that its second-quarter profits jumped 84% compared with the same period last year. Sales also increased at hefty double-digit rates, up nearly 23%, to $234.4 million...
...therefore time-consuming and costly. But prescribed burns are not risk free, especially in areas that have been deprived of fire for long periods of time. Three years ago, for example, a prescribed fire at the Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico went off the reservation, igniting the blaze that swept into Los Alamos. Lost in the finger pointing that followed was the fact that the fire would probably not have proved so dangerous had fuel loads in the adjacent forest been lower. And this is precisely why thinning can be useful. As Arizona State University environmental historian Stephen Pyne...