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But he noted there are still several weeks of fire season to go and "the air quality impacts have been very severe and persistent."

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Long-range drones, which don’t require Starlink connections, attacked the Ryazan oil refinery, located southeast of Moscow, sparking a fire, Russian officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

GFS Pride, a containership, was hit Tuesday by an unknown projectile a nautical mile east of Ras Makhbuq, Oman, resulting in an onboard fire, according to maritime security companies Vanguard, Marisks and Neptune.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

All 21 crew members of GFS Pride were evacuated and no injuries were reported after the attack on Tuesday, which caused damage and a fire, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore said.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

“And more. You’ve had a narrow escape. You’re one lucky boy. What if the fire had spread into that sugarbush grove? Do you happen to recall whose particular grove that is?”

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Research has found much of the haze comes from fires burning in peatlands.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

On Sunday, Environment Minister Joao Paulo Capobianco flew over the affected areas, sighting hundreds of fires in the middle of the protected forest.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

“There’s a high risk for any new fires to grow really fast,” said Ryan Kittell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

Many of these fires in Indonesia's forests and peatlands are caused by the razing of vegetation to clear land - a practice known as "slash and burn".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

There were signs and posters about fires and firemen everywhere; all the blackboards said “Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, Speed and Safety Winner!”

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

The Saudi-led coalition said drones fired by the Houthis at the kingdom's southern region and the city of Khamis Mushait were intercepted.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Three days before he was to depart, he was arrested by the FBI and charged with trying to record secret conversations within his latest employer, OpenAI, which fired him that day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The BBC showed photographs from the scene to forensics and ballistics experts, who said that the clusters suggested multiple rounds had been fired downward from above, and did not appear indicative of a firefight.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

This September, the department ordered the building’s owner to “immediately remove all fired damaged debris that pose a Present, immenent, extreme and immediate hazard or danger to life or limb, health or safety.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

When asked what a painting meant, he often fired it.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

The BBC cannot establish which bullets killed each victim, and cannot rule out other officers firing inside the stadium.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

He said the last military execution was in 1961, and the last by firing squad was in 1945.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

The last live hostages were freed a year ago as part of a US-brokered ceasefire deal in which Hamas stopped firing into Israel.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Which means you have to find your emotional connection, and that’s likely going to generate from whatever synapses are firing up in the memory bank.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

They’re firing off so many salutes in Moscow, the city must be rumbling and shaking all day long.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank