The statewide fire ban, issued June 14, applied to open burning, including campfires, warming fires, charcoal grill fires, fused explosives and private use of fireworks, officials said.

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The pits at Balad were at one point open and burning everything from plastics and food to medical waste.

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This tavern must have been facing west, because the burning sun came through the open door.

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Almost half of people in the world cook their food and heat their homes by burning coal and biomass in open fires or basic stoves.

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As well as cutting up and burning the hose on an open fire, she washed and replaced bed covers in the room where her husband was poisoned.

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Mixing the slow-burning grace of The National with the open-hearted warmth of Adem, "The First Days of Spring" spends nearly seven minutes seething and building and exploding.

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