EFFIS, sends out daily forest-fire risk assessments, based on weather forecasts and the like.

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The fact is that adaptations of the V-22 have virtually unlimited potential to improve interurban air transport, short-haul commercial delivery, oil spill containment, forest fire-fighting, emergency relief delivery, and a host of other functions.

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The film takes its name from the practice of setting a small fire to clear out nearby brush, allowing a fast-advancing forest fire to pass by harmlessly.

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The Lake Yellowstone Hotel overlooks a vast and placid body of moonlit water, its distant east shore smudged with the glow of a long-burning forest fire.

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The Europeans are the world masters at organizing conferences in Brussels committee rooms, however, now they are rapidly running out of time and credibility as they have sought to stem the forest fire of a sovereign-debt crisis almost a year after the Greek bond market hits the buffers and needed a bailout.

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At Laggan near Newtonmore, efforts were made to prevent a major fire re-igniting a forest plantation badly damaged on Thursday night.

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The firm says the road will let fire-fighting vehicles into the forest and allow rangers to protect the tigers.

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That money would fund Forest Service replanting and recovery efforts in the most fire-devastated areas of southwestern Oregon.

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The U.S. Forest Service has warned it could be mid-July before the fire is fully controlled.

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