According to PC Mag, Amazon said that lightning struck a transformer near its data center, causing a fire that left the center powerless.
Rose Davis is a spokesperson for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
The South Dakota wildfire has scorched 4, 200 acres since it began Friday, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
Moreover, the 1-5 scale used by the center to rate fire danger and preparedness was raised from 3 to 4.
Similarly, data from the National Interagency Fire Center show the number of U.S. wildfires is on a 35-year downward trend.
Ms. ROSE DAVIS (National Interagency Fire Center): We've got large fires in several areas and a lot of demand for resources.
The National Interagency Fire Center reports the number of annual wildfires in the United States has been declining for more than 30 years.
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Wildfires are projected to be more likely than normal in parts of Southern California, Hawaii and Appalachia in coming months, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
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Ms. ROSE DAVIS (Public Affairs Officer, National Interagency Fire Center): Our folks have been going hard in support of hurricanes in the fall, fires in the Midwest in the spring, and now the Western fire season.
Officials with the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise said Wednesday in their first 2013 summer outlook that a dry winter and expected warming trend mean the potential for significant fire activity will be above normal on the West Coast, in the Southwest and portions of Idaho and Montana.
Fire officials at a command center in Strawn, Texas, said 30% of this Possum Kingdom fire has been contained.
The cause of the fire and explosion has not been determined yet, but investigators have isolated the center of the blast, Assistant State Fire Marshal Kelly Kistner said Sunday.
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Hasan is accused of opening fire at the deployment center at Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009.
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One was a 1.8-metric ton British air bomb that could have wiped out the city center, according to the local fire brigade.
In Sayreville, a suburb about 50 minutes south of Manhattan, entire blocks were destroyed, a building collapsed and there was a fire at the recycling center.
The center opened in 1995 and has trained fire crews from 29 states and 24 countries.
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The area where the fire occurred is an agribusiness center, especially for poultry.
Authorities say Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, opened fire at a military processing center at Fort Hood on Thursday, killing 13 and wounding 30 others.
Authorities say Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, opened fire at a military processing center at Fort Hood on November 5, killing 13 people.
The Adventist Community Services Disaster Response team opened a donation center to help victims of the High Park Fire at Foothills Mall in Fort Collins.
The foundation of the new World Trade Center flooded, as did Long Island locales like Fire Island and the Rockaways.
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The calls come into the New York Police Department and the New York Fire Department's Public Safety Answering Center, which is manned by both types of dispatchers answering calls.
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Their character and bravery were on full display in that processing center at Fort Hood, when so many scrambled under fire to help their wounded comrades.
Wal-Mart will also set up an independent call center for garment workers to report unsafe conditions and conduct fire safety training for every worker in the Bangladesh factories that make clothes for the U.S. retailing giant.
There was also an evacuation center for small animals at San Jacinto Valley Animal Services, Cal Fire said.
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Copies of Fire Sale on National Security can be obtained by contacting the Center.
In the nervous reaction to the World Trade Center buildings coming down, building standards were amended to provide for better fire proofing and an additional stairwell for tall buildings.
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