LAZY summer days are a rarity for America's firefighters, who must battle dozens of big blazes around the west.
In fact, these underground blazes burn through an estimated 20 million tons of coal a year, the equivalent of the entire coal production of Germany last year.
Thousands of Californians have been told to flee the path of intense wildfires threatening 12, 000 homes in the Los Angeles area after two firefighters were killed trying to tackle the blazes.
Two major blazes scorch more than 13, 000 hectares of forest and farmland.
The researchers visited almost 200 forest and peatland sites shortly after blazes were extinguished to measure how much biomass burnt.
The blazes torched buildings, closed a vital freeway, and caused at least two fatalities — prompting Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a state of emergency in L.A. and Ventura Counties.
What the blankety-blank blue blazes went on!
After midnight she stands there in her black rig rooted to the spot. Back of her is the little alleyway that blazes like an inferno.
While residents in the south brace for rain, Queenslanders are preparing for fires to erupt with the unseasonally dry weather in the far north where firefighters battled several blazes yesterday.
But in front of the camera, his hair blazes with colour and his eyes pop out from beneath delicate eyelashes.
Tom's new motorbike goes like blazes.
Point view blazes plan isn't perfect, base material is enough, township, and a half if professional forest fire brigade in a war footing.
The design of radio random dynamic operated dot matrix large screen system blazes new trail to existing dot matrix large screens.
Authorities today warned people in towns north of Melbourne and in the state of New South Wales, where 46 blazes are being fought, to be vigilant today in forecast windy conditions.
Scientists have correlated the rampant blazes with warmer temperatures and earlier snowmelt.
And notice that it's the body that blazes: soul and body or soul and heart.
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