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Bayonne Cathedral – An earlier cathedral on the site was destroyed by fires in 1258 and 1310. [15] Beauvais Cathedral – Three fires led to the start of a replacement for the former basilica at the site. The Basse Oeuvre is the remnant of the original church, having survived fires in the 11th and 12th centuries. The ambitious project ...
1908 – Rhoads Opera House fire, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killed 170. [ 6] 1908 – Parker Building, New York City, January 10. 1908 – Collinwood school fire, in Collinwood, Ohio (soon absorbed by Cleveland ), on March 4, killed 175. 1909 – Flores Theater fire, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, on February 15, killed 250.
1866 – Great Portland Fire of 1866, Maine, destroyed the commercial district and left 10,000 homeless. 1866 – Great Fire of Quebec City, Quebec, razed an entire faubourg and left 20,000 homeless. 1868 – Auerbach in der Oberpfalz, Bavaria. Arson destroyed 107 houses and 146 other buildings; 4 deaths.
Cal Fire started responding to more wildfires in late May, a spokesperson said.
California's fires began in earnest in early June, ... including an all-time high of 120 F (48.8 C) set on Sunday. In Henderson, Nevada, officers from the Office of Public Response drove around ...
The 2021 Washington wildfire season officially began in March 2021. By late April, all of Eastern Washington had been classified by the United States Drought Monitor as "abnormally dry" with moderate to severe drought conditions. [2] The state had more than 630 wildfires by the first week of July, on par with the state's record 2015 wildfire ...
Authorities in Utah lifted evacuation orders for a wildfire in Salt Lake City that threatened neighborhoods near the state Capitol over the weekend. The evacuation order was lifted late Sunday ...
History of newspaper publishing. The modern newspaper is a European invention. [ 1] The oldest direct handwritten news sheets circulated widely in Venice as early as 1566. These weekly news sheets were full of information on wars and politics in Italy and Europe. The first printed newspapers were published weekly in Germany from 1605.