Word: haverfordwest
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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Brush Fires. The problem goes well beyond wilted flowers. In South Wales, where the drought is especially severe, firemen and soldiers were battling forest and heath fires around the clock last week. In Haverfordwest, a geriatrics hospital had to be evacuated when a brush fire spread to the hospital's roof. More than 100 miles to the east in Surrey, a mother and her four children were nearly burned to death when flames from a roadside grass fire engulfed their car. "Wales is a tinderbox," says Roy Orringe, deputy fire chief for Monmouthshire County. "My boys are stretched...
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