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The FAA doesn’t have a formal definition of a fume event and the service reports often don’t indicate the severity.

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Optus' emails also underplayed the severity of the 18 September outage, which has been linked to four deaths, including that of an eight-week old baby, as people could not reach emergency services.

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Ultimately, the severity of the shutdown’s effects on health care will depend on how long it lasts.

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To assuage their fears, legislators added an amendment allowing cities to exempt those areas in the state’s very high fire hazard severity zones until about 2030.

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He went for an MRI scan on Saturday evening to determine the severity of the issue.

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