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PANAMA CITY, Fla. AP 鈥?Fire officials hoped Wednesday that a light, steady rain in the Florida Panhandle would help ease three wildfires that have threatened homes and forced hundreds of evacuations in an area that was r stanley cup avaged by a Category 5 hurricane three years ago.The rain was a break from five days of dry, windy conditions that had fueled three wildfires in and around Bay County, Florida.The coastal area was hit in 2018 by Hurricane Michael, which left behind 72 million tons 65 million metric tons of destroyed trees that have provided fuel for the blazes. The hurricane was directly responsible for 16 deaths and about $25 billion in damage in the U.S.The rain should allow firefighters access to previously dangerous areas so that they can plow containment lines around the wildfires, fire officials said.Over the weekend, residents were evacuated from 1,100 houses in Bay County, but more than half were allowed to return home on Monday. So stanley cup far, only two homes have been destroyed and another dozen damaged, with the destruction occurr stanley termohrnek ing last Friday. The fire that caused that damage, the 875-acre 355-hectare Adkins Avenue Fire, was 80% contained on Wednesday, fire officials said.A smaller fire that had caused the evacuation of a state-operated nursing home for veterans, the 197-acre 80-hectare Star Ave. Fire, also was 80% contained Wednesday. Residents were allowed to return earlier in the week.The largest of the wildfires, the Bertha Swamp Road Fire, grew to more than Fsuy Who steals portable toilets German court renders verdict
BUFFALO, N.Y. 鈥?Parts of New York measured the seasons first big snowfall in feet, rather than inches, on Tuesday as 3 feet of lake-effect snow blanketed the Buffalo area and forced the closure of a 132-mile stretch of the state Thruway.The waist-high snow blown by strong winds stopped even pedestrians in their tracks and motorists abandoned vehicles where they got stuck. National Weather Service meteorologist Tony Ansuini said the storm was dumping 3 to 4 inches of snow per hour. There are some significant main arterials in the community that are basically parking lots, sai stanley termos d Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, who declared a state of emergency and issued driving bans for the southern section of Buffalo and more than a dozen suburbs.The Thruway Authority said white-out conditions caused by stanley cup romania wind gusts of more than 30 mph forced the closure of Interstate 90 in both directions from the Rochester area to Ripley, on the Pennsylvania border 60 miles southwest of Buffalo.Brian Krzeminski watched the snow pile up outside the south Buffalo convenience store where he worked overnight and served free coffee to the motorists and pedestrians who came in to get out of the blinding snow. There are people that came out to get a few stanley cup things. We had some people who came in just to get a 30-pack of beer, which is kind of odd, he said. Weve had EMTs whose ambulance got stuck. Im constantly seeing cars get stuck. In a region accustomed to highway-choking, mass school-closing snow storms, this |
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