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Firefighters continued suppression efforts during the day on Jan. 1, wetting down areas within the fire perimeter.

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She said in that time she saw vulnerable older people left sitting alone for hours in urine-soaked clothes or lying in wet bedsheets, often calling out for help.

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In big cities, he says, such recurrent, wet coughs are commonly triggered by dust and smog, sometimes accompanied by mild bronchospasm.

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After, we sat in a clearing and ate peanut butter sandwiches and Tcho chocolate, bluejays trying to steal our food, our wet skin warming in the sun.

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The solid mass weighed as much as eight double-decker buses and consisted mainly of wet wipes held together by fat, oil and grease.

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