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Bond In Investing Savings Cooler temperatures and milder winds on Sunday helped firefighters contain a blaze that has destroyed nearly 250 homes and forced thousands to be evacuated in this western Canadian city.

Areas particularly hard hit were Puglia, Calabria, and Basilicata, regions in the southern tip of the country. died in Calabria. Another elderly man died in a fire on the island of Sardinia when he tried to save his sheep from the blazes that ravaged the forests there. Farther North, fires have blazed through the forest of Castelfusano in Ostia, near Rome. Firefighters made every effort to contain and extinguish the flames, but hot weather and strong winds fed the flames, making the battle particularly difficult.

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"They're taking it down considerably, " said Dennis Bouslaugh of the U.S. Forest Service. Firefighters had fully contained the three major fires in Los Angeles County by nightfall, and largely contained many of the fires north of San Diego. Despite the progress, none of the six major blazes in San Diego County was more than 15 percent contained, and those fires threatened more than 8, 500 houses. The top priority was a fire in San Bernardino County that threatened 6, 000 homes and continued to rage out of control.

James Bond Trading Card Prime Minister Jean Chretien toured the fire-ravaged Kelowna area Sunday, viewing the devastation from the air and comforting evacuees on the ground.

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Bond In Investing Stock ``I wanted to come and offer my support, my moral support and the support of my government in order to help the citizens of Kelowna and the Interior of British Columbia,'' Chretien said.

GPS is helping to save lives and property across the nation. In 2002, it enabled rescuers to drill a shaft to free trapped miners in Somerset PA. Many police, fire, service units use GPS receivers to determine the police car, fire truck, or ambulance nearest to an emergency, death situations. equipped aircraft can quickly plot the perimeter of a forest fire so fire supervisors can produce updated maps in the field and send firefighters safely to key hot spots.

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GPS is helping to save lives and property across the nation. In 2002, it enabled rescuers to drill a shaft to free trapped miners in Somerset PA. Many police, fire, service units use GPS receivers to determine the police car, fire truck, or ambulance nearest to an emergency, death situations. equipped aircraft can quickly plot the perimeter of a forest fire so fire supervisors can produce updated maps in the field and send firefighters safely to key hot spots.

Bond Terms Trading ``It was so frightening for two nights when the winds were coming through and you didn't know where it was going next,'' said Marnie Perrier, an evacuee.

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Bond Investing Municipal Less than one-third of Kelowna's 100,000 residents fled the fire since Thursday as high winds swept it past orchards and vineyards and over fireguards built into hillsides.

Basis Bond Finance Hill ``There's still a great portion of our city that is at risk and at the whim of winds,'' said Ron Mattiussi, director of the Kelowna emergency operations center. ``This is still a very active dangerous area.''

Bond Explained Terms Trading Towering flames leveled 244 houses in the city's south end Friday and Saturday.

Bond Business Investing Stock Kevin Matuga, fire information officer with the British Columbia Forest Service, said there were no major losses Saturday and crews continued to extinguish hot spots around homes.

Bond Houston Houston ``This is far from over. Until we get a significant amount of rain, the potential for extreme fire behavior still exists,'' Matuga said.

Stock Bonds Day Trading Leo Gebert, the evacuated owner of Kelowna's St. Hubertus Estate Winery, saw flames creeping between the buildings of his business and welcomed helicopters dumping retardant on the structures.

Bond Corporate Investing ``As long as they keep doing that, there's hope,'' Gebert said. ``We can't do anything about it so we decided to get out.''

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Bond Trading Strategy Most people had left evacuation centers set up in hockey rinks to lodge in hotels, move in with friends or relatives or hunker down in vehicles, Suhan said.

Bond Fixed In Income Investing The cost of fighting the almost 900 fires that have plagued British Columbia this year now tops $106 million, or about $4 million per day.

Bond Dayton Dayton Investment Cher announced she would donate half the proceeds from her Saturday concert in Vancouver to the British Columbia Forest Fires Relief Fund. There was no word on the amount.

Bond Management Market Risk Associated Press - 8/24/2003

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