The fire started late Saturday in tinder-dry grass near the Snake River.

大火是星期六晚些时候在斯内克河附近干枯的草地上燃起的。

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Stocks in the Yukon River crashed in the late-1990s and are so low this year that commercial fishing has been banned.

育空河的鱼群在上个世纪九十年代后期突然锐减，今年的数量仍然很低，商业捕捞已经被禁止。

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By late October, the floods reached Bangkok through the Chao Phraya River and numerous canals and smaller waterways.

十月末，洪水通过湄南河以及无数运河和其他小的水道抵达了曼谷。

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Oil reached the coastline late Thursday near the mouth of the Mississippi River in the southern state of Louisiana.

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Jordan Cobb, 16, from Plymouth, jumped from the Torpoint ferry into the River Tamar late on New Year's Eve.

BBC: Jordan Cobb search: Police losing hope of finding him alive

In what has come to be known as the Pachang Creek incident, four workers were swept away by raging torrents of river water in late July while rescuers from the army and police argued over who had the proper jurisdiction.

CNN: The 100-Day Itch

President Bush traveled by motorcade across the Potomac River to Arlington, Virginia, late Wednesday afternoon to view the damage.

CNN: No hope of finding more survivors at Pentagon