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Colorado vegetation from recent rains could become fire fuel

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:06:13 GMT

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- Mike Amdur is a firefighter at the Foothills Fire Protection District around Lookout Mountain.He said the grasses in the area are green and several feet high after all of the recent rain."There's good moisture content right now, but we worry when those grasses dry out, they create a very large, heavy fuel load for us and can generate pretty intense and fast-growing fire behavior," he said.Amdur said grasses dry out much faster than trees and it doesn't take long.According to Zach Hiris, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Boulder, the rest of June looks to be pretty dry."For places like the plains where it is predominantly grass, it just takes a couple of weeks of really dry conditions to get those fuels available to burn again," Hiris said. When was Denver’s last 90-degree day? He said there would be reason for concern if the area moved into an extended dry period, after a very wet period."We did that a couple of years ago where th...

Denver weather: Dry Tuesday ahead, storms return Wednesday

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:06:13 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver's weather will stay warm and dry for one more day before the stormy weather pattern returns. Temperatures will climb to the mid to upper 80s again on Tuesday. Weather tonight: Clear and dry It will be a beautiful evening to spend time outside in Colorado. Temperatures in Denver will fall to the mid-50s overnight with dry conditions and clear skies. Wind will stay light Monday night. Weather tomorrow: Warm and dry Tuesday will be similar to Monday with sunshine, dry conditions and warm temperatures. Denver's afternoon high will climb to the mid-80s, which is normal for this time of year. When was Denver’s last 90-degree day? Looking ahead: Storms returnStorm chances will return on Wednesday afternoon with a 20% chance of rain in metro Denver. Temperatures will cool to the low 80s on Wednesday. Thursday will be the wettest day of the week with scattered storm chances up to 60%. Temperatures will cool into the mid-70s on Thursday with the increase in rain...

Bodycam video shows deputy rescuing unconscious Orlando truck driver

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:06:13 GMT

A Florida deputy was hailed a “hero” after performing CPR on an unconscious truck driver in Orlando.“Keep breathin’, keep breathin’, keep breathin’, man. C’mon, stay with me.”Volusia County Sergeant Brian Walsh saw a driver run his truck off Interstate-95, into a guard rail.Walsh pulled over and extracted the unconscious driver out and immediately began CPR, until paramedics arrived.The driver was transported to a nearby hospital where he was breathing on his own and receiving treatment.

Man struck by lightning at Juneteenth event organized in Fort Lauderdale

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:06:13 GMT

A man was transported to the hospital after possibly being struck by lightning at a park in Fort Lauderdale while attending the Juneteenth event.Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue responded to a call reporting a possible lightning strike involving an adult male at Mills Pond Park, located at 2201 NW 9th Ave, shortly after 3:40 p.m.Ujima Men’s Collective organized a cooking contest for the Juneteenth celebration where 100 people came to celebrate. The weather started to get worse and people started to scramble and huddled under the pavilion, that’s when one person got struck by lightning.Event Organisers said they saw the lightning and they started to disperse. “He fell, and we were just like Oh! My god and that was it and we called 911 so we were on the phone call, several people were calling 911, starting to make sure he was okay, and prior to the ambulance getting here, he actually was responsive,” said Lorenzo Robertson, Event Organizer. The exact details of the ...

Tropical Storm Bret forms in Atlantic, with possible hurricane threat to Caribbean islands

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:06:13 GMT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Bret formed in the central Atlantic Ocean on Monday, with forecasters saying it could pose a hurricane threat to the eastern Caribbean by Thursday and the Dominican Republic and Haiti by the weekend.The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Bret had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) at 5 p.m. Monday as it moved west across the Atlantic at 21 mph (33 kph). Forecasters expect it to strengthen over the next two days, reaching Category 1 hurricane strength of 74 mph (120 kph) by Wednesday night as it nears the Lesser Antilles. Because of wind shear, the storm is not expected to strengthen into a Category 2 storm.Bret is forecast to move across the Lesser Antilles as a hurricane on Thursday and Friday and unleash flooding, heavy rainfall and dangerous storm surge and waves, the center said. It is then expected to weaken slowly while still in the eastern Caribbean region, although the center warned that its forecast “remains a low con...

Barrier Breakers: New exhibit chronicles players who helped break Major League Baseball’s color barrier

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:06:13 GMT

Emerson College is hosting a special exhibit that chronicles and commemorates the players who broke baseball’s color barrier, including Jackie Robinson and Pumpsie Green.“Barrier Breakers: From Jackie to Pumpsie” officially opened Monday morning on Juneteenth, at 118 Boylston Street in Boston.The free exhibit, which runs through Friday, Aug. 4, features the stories of players who joined Major League Baseball and broke its color barrier over the span of 12 years, ranging from 1947 with Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers to Elijah “Pumpsie” Green, who joined the Boston Red Sox in 1959 and is credited with completing the integration cycle.The event is a a traveling exhibit made possible by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City and is being presented as part of a partnership between Emerson, the City of Boston, the Boston Public Library, Red Sox, and numerous other community partners.“Awareness – and when I see a kid with their parent say &...

Europe must build its own air defense, Macron

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:06:13 GMT

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron called on European nations Monday to seek more independence on airspace defense and advocated against relying too much on the U.S., a long-divisive issue that takes on new urgency because of Russia’s war in Ukraine.Macron made his case for Europeans building their own airspace protection strategy in the closing speech of a conference in Paris gathering defense ministers and other representatives of 20 European countries.The talks included anti-drone combat and ballistic missile defense, French organizers said, noting that Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has shown the importance and effectiveness of such equipment. Nuclear weapons deterrence was also on the agenda.“We need to know what the threat situation is … And then, what are we, Europeans, able to produce? And what do we then need to buy?” Macron said.He warned against purchasing immediately “what’s on the shelves.”Among nations who took p...

Ticker: Germany pledges millions for Intel plant; Amazon, Marriott to hire refugees in Europe

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:06:13 GMT

Intel and the German government signed a deal Monday that will see the U.S. company spend more than $32.8 billion to build a chip manufacturing site in the eastern city of Magdeburg, after Germany pledged to cover a third of the investment required.Word of the agreement came as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger in Berlin.Intel acquired the land for two semiconductor facilities in Magdeburg in November. It says the first one is expected to start production in four or five years.“The investment in Germany means a significant expansion of Intel’s production capacity in Europe and is the biggest investment ever made by a foreign company in Germany,” Economy Minister Robert Habeck, who is also the country’s vice chancellor, said in a statement.Amazon, Marriott  to hire refugees in EuropeMultinational companies including Amazon, Marriott, Hilton are pledging to hire more than 13,000 Ukrainian women and other refugees in Europe over the next ...

Some quick facts about submersible missing near Titanic wreck off Newfoundland

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:06:13 GMT

A search was underway Monday in an area of the Atlantic Ocean about 700 kilometres south of Newfoundland for a small submersible reported missing during a dive to view the wreckage of the Titanic. Here are a few facts about the missing vessel and its owner, Washington-based OceanGate Expeditions.1. The Titan is a 6.4-metre manned submersible made of carbon fibre and titanium, designed to carry five people to depths of up to 4,000 metres for “site survey and inspection, research and data collection, film and media production, and deepsea testing of hardware and software,” according to OceanGate’s website. The craft includes a large viewport to allow passengers to view their surroundings, and is lowered into the water with the help of what the company calls a “patented, integrated launch and recovery platform.”2. The vessel carried a combination of crew and tourists, who pay huge fees to view the wreck site and participate in research tasks. The Canadian ...

Former student opens fire in Brazilian school, killing teen and wounding other, official says

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:06:13 GMT

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A former student entered a school and then began shooting in Brazil’s southern Parana state Monday, killing a 16-year-old girl and severely wounding another teen, a spokesperson for the city of Cambé told The Associated Press by phone.The gunman, aged 20 or 21, entered the Professora Helena Kolody state school purportedly to retrieve some documents, spokesperson Thiago Mossini said. Once inside the building, the man fired at least a dozen shots before being restrained by a school employee, Mossini said. The alleged shooter was later arrested by police, Mossini said.The wounded student, a 17-year-old, remains in critical condition, the University Hospital of Londrina said in a statement Monday evening. The medical team said that while it was necessary to place a catheter, the patient’s critical state did not allow for him to be transported to the surgery room at the moment.The boy’s father, Rodrigo Augusto, told TV network Globo News earlier Mo...