The poster landscape for the salvage logging debate can be found in the mountains of Oregon, mountains blackened in 2002 by the 500, 000-acre Biscuit fire, which was the biggest in the history of the state.

NPR: Study: Salvage Logging Boosts Forest-Fire Threat

In 2009, a fire in a packed nightclub in the Ural Mountains city of Perm killed more than 100 people, leading to widespread checks of safety-rules by fire inspection teams around Russia.

WSJ: Russian Hospital Fire Kills 38

The developments came three days after a shootout, standoff and fire at a cabin in the mountains east of Los Angeles.

CNN: Renegade ex-cop Dorner died from single gunshot to head

Continuing cool, moist air significantly reduced fire activity and helped firefighters build containment lines around the 44-square-mile fire at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains.

NPR: Cause Of California Wildfire Appears Accidental

More than 950 fire and law enforcement personnel contained 20% of the blaze near upscale homes and through the Santa Monica Mountains, the county fire department said.

CNN: Fire rages in California even as winds die down

More than 950 fire and law enforcement personnel were able to contain only 20% of the blaze roaring near upscale houses and through the Santa Monica Mountains, the county fire department said.

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In conferring the medal, President Barack Obama described the conditions faced by Romesha and 52 other soldiers when they came under attack from mortar, rocket-propelled grenade, machine-gun and sniper fire on October 3, 2009, at Combat Outpost Keating in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.

CNN: Medal of Honor recipient conflicted by joy, sadness

"Lion Face Boy" is the first single from Seabear's sophomore album, We Built a Fire, and it's a perfect display of the band's knack for constructing mountains of instrumentation on a simple idea.

NPR: Seabear: Iceland's Orderly Orchestra