But the acres burned by high-severity fires — when flames explode out of control with extreme temperatures, incinerating trees rather than simply clearing out dead vegetation — have increased thirtyfold.
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Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
3 July 2026
And sometimes the physical act of clearing out resets more than just the space.
Police are searching for a straphanger suspected of unbolting a door switch from a inside a downtown C train Monday evening, snipping the wires and then absconding with the train part, sources tell the Daily News.
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Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
14 May 2026
For the last couple of years at least, groups of international thieves have been traveling to Southern California and burglarizing homes and stores before absconding back to their home countries.
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