• With the same high-spirited eagerness, and a flask full of local fire-water, he would run into taverns, caves, shepherd huts and gypsy camps, hungry to pick up the unknown language and join in.

    ECONOMIST: Paddy Leigh Fermor

  • Many of the papers -- some of them badly damaged by fire or water -- have undergone delicate conservation work before being added to the archive.

    CNN: Isaac Newton's manuscripts gravitate to the web

  • Run-off water from the fire-fighting operation reduced oxygen levels in the canal, causing the fish to die.

    BBC: Fire-hit Erewash canal set to be restocked with fish

  • The list of suspect goods runs from heart and lung machines to wheelbarrows, from fire-fighting equipment to detergent, from water pumps to pencils.

    ECONOMIST: Iraqi sanctions

  • However, this current itself twists around and around as it flows through the magnetic field, the way a torrent of water twists up a fire-fighter's hosepipe.

    ECONOMIST: Here be serpents

  • Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts, who represents the area, told WWL-TV that the fire was in very shallow water, as little as a foot deep, and that authorities would not approach the site until the fire had burned itself out.

    NPR: Blaze Erupts After Tug Hits Pipeline On La. Bayou

  • Many nearby villages had different post offices, fire and police departments, water, sewage and electricity systems -- sometimes even school districts.

    FORBES: Local heroes

  • It said some of the gas - which is used in the site's cooling systems - may have turned into liquid as the fire service used water to prevent it dispersing.

    BBC: Llangefni: Vion food factory ammonia gas leak inquiry

  • Scores of people had to be evacuated due to floods and other issues, and San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood noted there had been about 250 water-related calls in the first 15 hours of Saturday.

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  • Scores of people had to be evacuated due to floods and other issues, and Fire Chief Charles Hood noted there had been about 250 water-related calls -- in addition to ones for things like medical emergencies, accidents and more -- in the first 15 hours of Saturday.

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  • The Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve have also sent six C-130 aircraft specially set up to drop water and fire suppressant on the fires.

    CNN: Chertoff: Lessons from Katrina being applied to fire response

  • The Cyber Lords (Aqua Trader and Emperor Neuron) and Drakon (Drakon Warchief, Laser-Arm Drakon and especially Blastforce Captain) make mono Water and Fire decks very viable.

    FORBES: Kaijudo's Evo Fury: Cards To Look For

  • Even if the fire brigade had lagoons of water at its disposal, it was understaffed and ill-equipped to deal with such a blaze.

    ECONOMIST: The great Fenice mystery

  • In 1972 the Clean Water Act further broadened the law, as Congress became concerned about pollution and water quality, spurred by high-profile incidents such as the Cuyahoga River catching fire in 1969.

    WSJ: Federal Offenses: Sewage Blunder Earns Building Engineer a Criminal Record

  • Participants on a 10-to-12 mile Tough Mudder course wade through waist-deep mud, crawl under barbed wire, submerge themselves in ice water and jump through fire.

    WSJ: Office Workers Run Extreme Obstacle Courses

  • The Lake Yellowstone Hotel overlooks a vast and placid body of moonlit water, its distant east shore smudged with the glow of a long-burning forest fire.

    BBC: The king of US national parks

  • Tuesday, ambulances and fire trucks, sirens wailing, streamed onto the wind-whipped peninsula and residents waded through waist-high water to escape with what belongings they could or for those who fled to check on homes that were certainly left with standing water.

    WSJ: After Devastating Fire, Breezy Point Bands Together

  • "Forty-one survivors said that they smelled oil, but there were no witnesses of flames, fire or a water column, nor were there any injuries from these factors, " Yonhap quotes the full report as saying.

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