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Arizona Wildfire Forces 1,000 Home Evacuations – CBS News
The second wildfire to hit this forested city in two days drove residents from more than 1,000 homes Sunday, and authorities arrested a man they say caused the first blaze by dumping coals from a campfire on the ground.
Coconino County authorities asked residents of 1,044 homes in three neighborhoods north of the city to leave because of the latest fire. The first wildfire, burning 350 acres in southeastern Flagstaff, forced the evacuation of about 170 homes, briefly shut down a hotel and remained uncontained Sunday.
Authorities knew of no buildings that had been burned. U.S. Route 89 northeast of the city was closed because of smoke from the second fire, and each blaze had forced an animal shelter to evacuate.
Crews on the ground, in air tankers and in helicopters were trying to protect homes as flames could be seen scorching treetops on nearby ridges.
“There’s a pretty impressive towering column of smoke,” said Coconino National Forest spokeswoman Karen Malis-Clark.
The American Red Cross has set up a shelter at a Flagstaff middle school for residents displaced by both fires.
Fire officials did not know what sparked the second blaze. A California man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of starting the fire that erupted Saturday by leaving behind hot coals at a campsite in a wooded area about two miles from downtown Flagstaff.
“As far as we understand, this was not a deliberate act. It was a careless act,” said Kimberly Ott, spokeswoman for the northern Arizona city of about 60,000.
Randall Wayne Nicholson, 54, was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of burning of a wildland, Ott said. Nicholson, whose hometown was not immediately available, was being held on a $2,500 bond at the Coconino County jail. It was unknown if he had an attorney.
The fire Nicholson is accused of starting quickly spread up a hill and threatened homes in two neighborhoods. Crews worked overnight and Sunday to protect structures and establish a perimeter around the blaze, but Coconino County spokeswoman Joanne Keene said fire officials have not declared any part of the fire contained.
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Rahm Emanuel To Quit White House – The Telegraph
Washington insiders say White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel will quit within six to eight months in frustration at the unwillingness of Obama’s inner circle to get policy pushed through.
Mr Emanuel, 50, enjoys a good working relationship with Mr Obama but they are understood to have reached an understanding that differences over style mean he will serve only half the full four-year term.
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China To Overtake U.S. In Manufacturing – Financial Times
The U.S. remained the world’s biggest manufacturing nation last year, but is poised to relinquish this slot in 2011 to China – thus ending a 110-year run as the number one country in factory production.
The figures are revealed in a league table being published on Monday by IHS Global Insight, a U.S.-based economics consultancy. Last year, the US created 19.9 per cent of world manufacturing output.
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46 Workers Killed In China Mine Blast – CNN
An underground explosion in a coal mine in central China’s Henan province killed at least 46 miners early Monday. 26 of the 72 miners trapped by the explosion were able to escape.
Officials are investigating what caused the blast, which apparently occurred in the explosives storage area of the mine around 1:40 a.m. (1:40 p.m. ET), state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
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19 Hurt In Chicago Subway Fire – Chicago Sun-Times
Nineteen CTA passengers were taken to area hospitals Sunday as a precaution after a subway fire.
Burning railroad ties on the Red Line between the Chicago and Division stops sent plumes of thick black smoke billowing onto the street from vents at State and Bellevue and terrified passengers scurrying from the station at Clark and Division shortly before 5 p.m.
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Obama Administration Only Accepted Help From 5 Of 28 Countries – First Things
This weekend as President Obama went golfing and to the ballgame, the Obama State Department was STILL in the review process on deciding which countries the US would accept help from.
As the Gulf Coast shores continue to be coated with crude, the Obama Administration has only accepted assistance from 5 countries out of 28 who offered to assist the US with the cleanup.
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National Guard, Police Watch Over Billings Area Devastated By Tornado – Fox News
National Guard troops and local police were keeping a close eye on damaged property after a tornado barreled through two Billings neighborhoods, tearing the roof off a sports arena and several buildings.
The tornado struck at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, running through Main Street and damaging about 10 small businesses in the city’s northeast area before quickly moving toward the 10,000-seat Rimrock Auto Arena.
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Radiation Detected After N. Korea Nuclear Claim – Yahoo News
South Korea detected a high level of xenon gas – a by-product of atomic tests – two days after the North claimed last month to have staged a successful nuclear experiment, officials said Monday.
North Korea announced on May 12 it had conducted a nuclear fusion reaction, prompting scepticism in the South at the time because of the technical difficulty inherent in the process.
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Postcard Reaches Soldier’s Family After 95 Years – CBS News
A postcard sent home by a Bosnian soldier in World War I has finally reached his family after 95 years, thanks to an American antique collector.
“Oh my God,” was all Nadir Bicakcic could say when he recognized the face on the card. For Nihad Dzinovic, a retired California jeweler, it was as if one of the 200,000 old postcards he collected had come alive.
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Blonde, Pony-Tailed Burglar Found Bed Just Right – Yahoo News
A blonde, pony-tailed burglar ate some food, drank some alcohol, tried on clothes and then found the bed in a New Zealand home just right.
But upon finding a modern-day Goldilocks asleep in his bed, the homeowner in the southern city of Christchurch exercised an option The Three Bears didn’t: He called police. 39-year-old Vanessa Joy Long pleaded guilty in court Monday.
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Toddler Stuck In Washing Machine – Stuff
A three-year-old girl in eastern China has been freed from a washing machine by firefighters, after being stuck for more than an hour. The girl had climbed in to play when her legs got caught in the machine.
Emergency services worked for an hour to cut the girl free, with the entire rescue filmed by Chinese state media. The girl was not harmed during the incident.
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Baby Hospitalized With Blood-Alcohol Level Of .33 – Fox News
An Atlanta babysitter was jailed after admitting she gave a potentially lethal amount of wine to an infant in her care, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported late Wednesday.
Tammy Denise Truitt confessed in court to giving the nine-month-old boy wine in a sippy cup to make the infant fall asleep. The baby was hospitalized with a blood-alcohol level of .33.
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