Two other fires, the Weber fire and the Little Sand fire, were at 90% and 40% containment, respectively, as of Sunday, the governor's office said.

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The walker had to be pulled from the waterlogged mix of mud and sand by Dorset Fire Service on Friday.

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"You wake up in the morning at about 5 o'clock ... and then you watch the sun rise and this extremely peaceful and serene atmosphere and then you just look at the sun coming like a ball of fire, rising from the sand and then coming up, " recalls Jibunoh.

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That has Leveaux wanting to go as simple as possible and he is tempted to just cover the stage with sand and then set fire to it.

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There are subtle effects in the environment, like shadows from a fire, ripples in water and disappearing footprints in sand.

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On Tuesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in a report that a long-stalled shoreline sand-replenishment project covering the coast from Fire Island to Montauk Point was eligible for full federal funding, though the project hasn't received final authorization.

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Fire ants, he explained, could build stable tunnels in sand or soil with almost no moisture to bind it together, so learning from them might enable designers to build and programme robots that solve these same engineering problems.

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Within the half hour, I had caught three trout, and we set up on a nearby beach amid a rugged beauty straight from a Jack London novel: red sand, log cabin and fish baking over a crackling fire.

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