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Delivery Robot Engulfed In Flames, Honored On Campus With Candlelight Vigil
The University of California, Berkeley, lost a beloved member of their campus last week, when a delivery robot was engulfed in flames outside the student union.
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Record-Breaking Heat In California Led To Home-Destroying Wildfires
Record-setting heat plagued much of southern California over the weekend, with temperatures touching as high as 47 degrees during the day. The unseasonably hot weather sparked a number of brush fires that swept across hundreds of acres of land and destroyed several homes.
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Campers Burning Poop In A Hole Started 500-Plus Acre Fire
Photo: Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest Two campers are to blame for a fire that has consumed more than 500 acres in Nevada’s Voltaire Canyon.
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Fire-Detecting Wallpaper Turns Entire Rooms Into A Better Smoke Detector
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and that’s how most alarm systems are able to detect and warn of trouble. But Chinese researchers have developed a new kind of wallpaper, using ingredients found in bones and teeth, that sounds the alarm when heat and flames are detected, turning every wall in a room into a potential…