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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Firefighters struggled Thursday to contain infernos across the western United States as experts warned that drought-striken California should prepare for an unusually intense wildfire season. Forest fires are a fact of life in much of California but have become far worse because of bone-dry conditions, with the Golden State gripped in its fifth year of drought. A fire in the Los Padres National Forest had expanded to two square […]
SAINT-DENIS, France (AFP) — At least five people were killed and two others seriously injured in a building fire in a suburb of Paris on Monday evening, the fire service said. A further nine people had less serious injuries following the blaze in Saint-Denis, to the north of the French capital, a spokesman said. Firefighters at the scene were unable to identify the victims found in the rubble because of the severity of the blaze, […]
