Wind turbine catches fire off British coast prompting evacuations
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The British Coastguard evacuated personnel from an offshore wind farm after one of the turbines caught fire.
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Wind Turbine Catches Fire And Melts To Pieces In England
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NSW and Qld fires: residents urged to flee bushfire near Toowoomba amid warning of 'bad days' ahead, Bushfires
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Black smoke billows from wind turbine off Norfolk coast
Hundreds in Scotland told to evacuate as northern Europe braces for gale-force winds and floods
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Hull wind turbine catches fire and sends acrid black smoke billowing across city
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Ship carrying Porsches and Bentleys ablaze near Azores, towing boats en route
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Highland fire explodes to 1,200 acres in Riverside County - Los Angeles Times
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Wind turbine catches fire off Norfolk coast as Scroby Sands investigation under way, UK News
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Bordeaux Wildfires: French Pine Forests Near Atlantic Coast Ablaze in Hot Europe - Bloomberg
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Scroby Sands wind turbine fire off Norfolk coast self extinguishes
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Scroby Sands: Huge plume of smoke engulfs sky after wind farm catches fire off UK coast
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Study, amid groundswell of opposition, shelves idea of wind turbines in Lake Erie: 'Now is not the right time
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Montana's largest wind farm underway near Miles City