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...A tank containing about 100 gallons of water is on hand should they find themselves dealing with fire themselves....
...county....
...In December, the environment ministry noted an “alarming” decline in air quality and ordered local authorities to clamp down on forest fires, illegal burning of refuse and agricultural waste, particularly...
...The authority immediately embarked on the task of tracing and quarantining cases, as well as all their contacts. Staff were seconded from other parts of County Hall to help....
...Water companies, represented by Water UK, say rivers have improved since privatisation and that they have provided “protection or improvements to over 15,000km of rivers since 1995.”...
...Authorities said on Friday that the fire had expanded to more than 140,000 acres and was still only 50 per cent contained....
...That we entered illegally and that took away all our protections,” she says. “Well, no.”...
...Rubbish is collected by local authorities who have few funds and even less knowledge about how to recycle properly....
...The Environmental Protection Agency was monitoring the situation and had “measured the atmosphere and said there is no concentration of toxic materials,” he added....
...“Nuisance flooding”, when high tides gurgle up through sewer drains and on to streets, is more frequent....
...It turned out to be the high-water mark of California’s rent-control movement: East Palo Alto, along with a handful of major centres such as San Francisco, adopted the protections....
...If any local authority cannot access funding to pay for essential fire safety work, they should contact us immediately....
...At home, authorities are under fire for failing to anticipate the chain reaction, with the government embroiled in a blame game with the shipper’s parent Hanjin Group over the logistics logjam....
...If that wireless backup had been made, Apple would have then been able to access the attacker’s data and pass it to the authorities....
...The company’s “advisory council”, which is made up of eight independent experts and two Google executives, chief legal officer David Drummond and chairman Eric Schmidt, released its conclusions on Thursday...
...They have a far more sophisticated understanding of the permeability of architecture — the fire escapes, the service ducts, the vaults and the sewers....
...They will be the most aggressive part of Barack Obama’s climate change policy, and will test whether the president and his Environmental Protection Agency can help to curb global warming without hurting...
...crown and the Catholic authorities....
...the Lords would cope with anything from a burst water main to a nuclear attack)....
...Indeed, the scouts are very hot on police checks for volunteers and the cover of the jamboree handbook includes a card about child protection.)...
...In California’s Orange County, local beaches were closed as residents braced for waves as tall as three feet....
...Representing Europe: UBS, NatWest, SocGen and Natixis. The plaintiffs include the City of Baltimore, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Bucks County Water & Sewer Authority....
...“It is an endemic problem when the retail investor does not operate as a constraint on operators,” says Dan Waters, head of asset management at the Financial Services Authority, the UK regulator....
...Engineers in New York hit problems when construction of the world’s largest ultraviolet water-treatment works at Westchester County threw up Native American artefacts....
...They have changed the way they fight these fires.” In fact, they saved his and his neighbours’ homes by dumping 500 gallons of water nearby and keeping the flames at bay....
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