Tenant's complaint ends in historic disaster for 145-year-old Aussie tree: 'I'm horrified'
That was the question asked by Tim Pickles, a garden centre owner in Sydney's Campbelltown, who admitted he felt "sick to his ...
Opinion: Do more than clear brush. Garden for fire
In extreme conditions, no amount of brush clearance can guarantee protection. Indeed, too much clearing can in fact leave ...
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Living and being prepared in a fire-prone environment
As 2025 began, the world watched the devastating fires in southern California. The fires spread rapidly over chaparral-covered hillsides under extremely dry conditions and Santa Ana winds. Thousands ...
How to stay safe on that frozen pond. And how firefighters train for people who fall in
If you can safely reach them from shore, extend an object like a rope, jumper cables, tree branch, or ladder to them. Toss ...
Column: Slow the spread of fire? ‘We have to get rid of the palm trees’
Structures, rather than vegetation, served as the primary fuel for spreading flames, but fire-resistant landscaping helps. It ...
No More Palm Trees, and Six Other Ways L.A. Can Protect Itself From Wildfires
Around the world, other communities are experimenting with ideas that Los Angeles could borrow as it rebuilds from disastrous ...
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Wind and Flame
The windstorm that was promised has arrived. I rise to meet it, part the curtains and see the tree in our backyard fold in half, leaning against the power lines. The palms sway like they’re going to ...
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Enshrouded Pact of the Flame Update Out Now, Full 1.0 Launch Next Year
Enshrouded's Pact of the Flame update is out now, and it's a big one. You can also look forward to individually resettable skills in the skill tree, new visual parry indicators for certain enemies, ...
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Norse code: Keeping the flame at the Up Helly Aa festival
Revellers have gathered on Shetland for the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival. The event marks the end of the Yule season in Nordic culture, and features “guizers” in Viking costume marching through ...
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Darts the Way I Like It wins Flame Tree B Division Bud Cup
THE Hut’s Darts the Way I Like It finished second in the Flame Tree Thursday B Division’s regular season of the 2024 SEDA Bud Light Dart League, but still ended the year with a bang by winning the Bud ...
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Trees might not be acting in the way we thought - this forest fitted with pipes can tell us why
This oak tree has stood in this very spot since long before he or I walked the Earth. It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute ...
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LA fire victims fear rebuilding ordeal. Some will not do it
Karen Myles, 66, walked out of her Altadena, California home in the middle of the night in her pajamas, confronted by a forest of red and orange flaming trees and live wires from tumbled electric ...