Could get . Dixie is has already burned 1400 square miles of land. Dixie has destroyed nearly 600 homes. Its only about half contained at the moment. It is the second largest fire in california history. The Caldor Fire just outside of Lake Tahoe has destroyed even more homes. At least 622 homes and counting. It is raging right now toward even more populated areas. Only about 25 of the Caldor Fire is contained. Both of those fires have multiple Evacuation Orders and warnings in place. The Fire Season is just unrelenting and merciless. Firefighters working in basically inhuman conditions now for weeks on end fighting unprecedented fire after unprecedented fire. Just a huge devotion of resources, human and otherwise, and so far no end in sight. In the northeast we have watched all day as the Death Toll has climbed from the floods that left behind by the trailing ends of Hurricane Ida Last Night. This is Hurricane Idas remnants hitting the most densely populated part of the country. As it
Range to the other. The Dixie Fire is about a Hour Northwest of the Camp Fire. Remember when the Camp Fire burned multiple towns to ground in 2018 and that felt like the worst it could get . Dixie is, has already burned 1,400 square miles of land. Dixie has destroyed nearly 600 homes. It is only about half contained at the moment, and the second largest fire in california history. The Caldor Fire just outside of Lake Tahoe has destroyed more homes and at least 622 homes and counting. It is raging right now towards even more populated areas, and only 25 of the Caldor Fire is contained. Both of those fires have multiple Evacuation Warnings in place, but the Fire Season is just unrelenting and merciless. The firefighters are working in inhumane conditions for weeks on end and fighting unprecedented fire after unpres dencedented resources, human and otherwise, so far no end in sight. In the northeast, we have watched all day as the Death Toll has climbed, from the floods, that Left Behind
Fire burned multiple towns to the ground in 2018 and you felt like that was the worst that it could get . Dixie has already burned 1,400 square miles of land. Dixie has destroyed nearly 600 homes. Its only about half contained at the moment. It is the second largest fire in california history. The Caldor Fire just outside of Lake Tahoe has destroyed even more homes. At least 622 homes and counting. It is raging right now toward even more populated areas. Only about 25 of the Caldor Fire is contained. Both of those fires have multiple Evacuation Orders and warnings in place. But the Fire Season is just unrelenting and merciless. Firefighters working in basically inhuman conditions now for weeks on end fighting unprecedented fire after unprecedented fire. Just a huge devotion of resources, human and otherwise, and so far no end in sight. In the northeast we have watched all day as the Death Toll has climbed from the floods that left behind by the trailing ends of Hurricane Ida Last Night
In the 400 metre hurdles. Hello and welcome to the programme. Thousands of people in lebanon have attended a Memorial Service in the ruins of the Port Of Beirut to mark the first anniversary of a huge explosion that devastated much of city. The blast was one of the biggest non nuclear explosions in history. It killed more than 200 people. Outside the lebanese parliament, the Security Forces fired Tear Gas at stone throwing protesters. Along with the grief, theres real anger that a year on nobody has been held to account for the explosion. Rights campaigners allege that the most senior officials in lebanon were aware of the danger posed by the huge quantity of Ammonium Nitrate Fertiliser stored in the port that caused the explosion. The blast plunged lebanon into a deeper crisis, but the country had already been facing serious problems for years due to the dire economy and political instability. Carine torbey reports. One year after the explosion, all the debris is swept to a corner and
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