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This photo made available Monday, June 26, 2017, by the Italian Culture Ministry, shows parts of the 1,800-year-old skeleton of a dog, which apparently perished in a blaze in Rome. Archaeologists think the dog was trapped in a blaze that largely consumed a 3rd-century building that was unearthed while digging for Rome's new subway, and have dubbed it a “Pompeii-like scene” in Rome. (Italian Culture Ministry Via AP)

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This photo made available Monday, June 26, 2017, by the Italian Culture Ministry, shows part of the 1,800-year-old skeleton of a dog, which apparently perished in a blaze in Rome. Archaeologists think the dog was trapped in a blaze that largely consumed a 3rd-century building that was unearthed while digging for Rome's new subway, and have dubbed it a “Pompeii-like scene” in Rome. (Italian Culture Ministry Via AP)

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This Saturday, June 24, 2017, photo, shows a cabin burnt to the ground by a wildfire fire on the west side of Panguitch Lake, near Panguitch, Utah. Nearly 1,000 firefighters battled a Utah wildfire that grew Sunday morning that has prompted the evacuation of over a 1,000 people from hundreds of homes and cabins. (Jordan Allred/The Spectrum via AP)

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This Saturday, June 24, 2017, photo, shows a home near a burnt hillside caused by a wildfire fire on the west side of Panguitch Lake, near Panguitch, Utah. Nearly 1,000 firefighters battled a Utah wildfire that grew Sunday morning that has prompted the evacuation of over a 1,000 people from hundreds of homes and cabins. (Jordan Allred/The Spectrum via AP)

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This Saturday, June 24, 2017, photo, shows a cabin burnt to the ground by a wildfire fire on the west side of Panguitch Lake, near Panguitch, Utah. Nearly 1,000 firefighters battled a Utah wildfire that grew Sunday morning that has prompted the evacuation of over a 1,000 people from hundreds of homes and cabins. (Jordan Allred/The Spectrum via AP)

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In this Saturday, June 24, 2017, photo, a resident of Panguitch Lake, Utah, carrys belonging out of his cabin as a wildfire approaches the area. Nearly 1,000 firefighters battled a Utah wildfire that grew Sunday morning that has prompted the evacuation of over a 1,000 people from hundreds of homes and cabins. (Jordan Allred/The Spectrum via AP)

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This Saturday, June 24, 2017, photo, shows a cabin near Panguitch Lake near Panguitch, Utah., that was not burned by a wildfire. Nearly 1,000 firefighters battled a Utah wildfire that grew Sunday morning that has prompted the evacuation of over a 1,000 people from hundreds of homes and cabins. (Jordan Allred/The Spectrum via AP)

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In this June 25, 2017, photo released by the Tulare County Sheriff's Office, taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle, shows floodwaters from the Kings River surrounding homes at the Kings River Golf and Country Club in Kingsburg, Calif. Authorities say 90 homes remain under mandatory evacuation orders following levee breaches along the Kings River in Central California. The Kings River began to flood Wednesday about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Fresno as temperatures soared, melting snow in the Sierra Nevada and sending it downstream. (Tulare County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This June 25, 2017, photo taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle and released by the Tulare County Sheriff's Office shows flooding from the Kings River at the Kings River Golf and Country Club in Kingsburg, Calif. Authorities say 90 homes remain under mandatory evacuation orders following levee breaches along the Kings River in Central California. The Kings River began to flood Wednesday about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Fresno as temperatures soared, melting snow in the Sierra Nevada and sending it downstream. (Tulare County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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This June 25, 2017, photo taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle and released by the Tulare County Sheriff's Office shows flooding from the Kings River at the Kings River Golf and Country Club in Kingsburg, Calif. Authorities say 90 homes remain under mandatory evacuation orders following levee breaches along the Kings River in Central California. The Kings River began to flood Wednesday about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Fresno as temperatures soared, melting snow in the Sierra Nevada and sending it downstream. (Tulare County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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Firefighters battle a fast-moving brush fire in Santa Clarita, Calif., Sunday, June 25, 2017. The wind-driven brush fire sparked Sunday when a car crashed on a Los Angeles County freeway quickly spread, prompting authorities to temporarily shut down all lanes of a highway and order mandatory evacuations. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

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Battalion Chief with Pasadena Fire Tony watches his crew as they battle a brush fire in Santa Clarita, Calif., Sunday, June 25, 2017. The wind-driven brush fire sparked Sunday when a car crashed on a Los Angeles County freeway quickly spread, prompting authorities to temporarily shut down all lanes of a highway and order mandatory evacuations. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

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Boats are docked at the reservoir where a ferry sank in Guatape, Colombia, Sunday, June 25, 2017. Nine people were dead and 28 missing after a tourist ferry packed with around 170 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday on a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin, officials said. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides) **FILE**

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Youths who survived the capsizing of a ferry wait for more information about their missing friends and relatives, at a reservoir in Guatape, Colombia, Sunday, June 25, 2017. Nine people were dead and 28 missing after a tourist ferry packed with around 170 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday on a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin, officials said. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

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Gilberto Villegas, a ferry passenger who survived after it sank in a reservoir, cries as he talks to the press in Guatape, Colombia, Sunday, June, 25, 2017. Villegas said two of his relatives are still missing. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

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Soldiers and rescue workers flat at the site where a ferry sank in a reservoir in Guatape, Colombia, Sunday, June 25, 2017. Nine people were dead and 28 missing after a tourist ferry packed with around 170 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday on a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin, officials said. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

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People cry as they wait for more information on tourists who were on a ferry that sank in a reservoir in Guatape, Colombia, Sunday, June 25, 2017. Nine people were dead and 28 missing after a tourist ferry packed with around 170 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday on a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin, officials said. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

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A fast-growing brush fire burns in Santa Clarita, Calif., Sunday, June 25, 2017. The fire sparked when a car crashed on a Los Angeles County freeway. (AP Photo/John Antczak)

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Pakistani rescue workers gather at the site of an oil tanker explosion at a highway near Bahawalpur, Pakistan, Sunday, June 25, 2017. An overturned oil tanker burst into flames in Pakistan on Sunday, killing more than one hundred people who had rushed to the scene of the highway accident to gather leaking fuel, an official said. (AP Photo/Iram Asim)

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Pakistan army soldiers stands guard while rescue workers examine the site of an oil tanker explosion at a highway near Bahawalpur, Pakistan, Sunday, June 25, 2017. An overturned oil tanker burst into flames in Pakistan on Sunday, killing more than one hundred people who had rushed to the scene of the highway accident to gather leaking fuel, an official said. (AP Photo/Iram Asim)