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An airplane drops slurry on the Piedra Fire in the Sandia Mountains between Albuquerque and Pacaitas, NM on Thursday, May 2, 2013. A wildfire is burning in the Sandia Mountains just north of Albuquerque. Firefighters battled the blaze on the ground and from the air, with helicopters and planes dropping water and fire retardant on the flames. (AP Photo/Craig Fritz)
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Fire department personnel drive along Pacific Coast Highway near Point Mugu as a thick layer of smoke sits overhead during a wildfire that burned several thousand acres, Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Ventura County, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Flames and smoke rise from chemical storage tanks near a strawberry farm in Camarillo, Calif., Thursday, May 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
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A woman is comforted by family members and others after she identified the body of her relative recovered from the rubble of the garment factory building which collapsed last week, in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
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Baylor safety Sam Holl (25) is unable to stop TCU wide reciever Skye Dawson (11) after a reception in the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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There were numerous fatalities Tuesday when a blast in Damascus' business district, the second in as many days, set cars and a nearby building ablaze.
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** FILE ** A United Airlines jet departing in view of the air traffic control tower at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle, April 23, 2013.
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Navy Lt. Dennis W. Peterson, 28, (left) was the pilot on a 1967 mission to rescue a downed pilot. Ensign Donald P. Frye, 23, (center) was a member of his crew. Lt. Cmdr. Richard D. Hartman (right) was the pilot they tried to rescue. The rescue helicopter was shot down and Peterson, Frye and two others onboard were killed. (U.S. Navy)
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Syrians walk on shattered glass from damaged shops at the scene of a powerful explosion that occurred in the central district of Marjeh in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA)
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Prince William's County Police Officer Dale Yung and Brian Yung make a rubbing of their slain brother, Prince William County Police Officer Chris Yung during a ceremony to unveil his name on the wall of the National Law Enforcement Memorial, Washington, D.C., Monday, April 29, 2013. Yung was killed in a motorcycle accident while responding to a separate car crash New Years Eve last year. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Virginia State Police Honor Guard Sgt. Mike McCann at the begining of a ceremony to unveil the name of slain Prince William County Police Officer Chris Yung on the wall of the National Law Enforcement Memorial, Washington, D.C., Monday, April 29, 2013. Yung was killed in a motorcycle accident while responding to a separate car crash New Years Eve last year. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
