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A mannequin is positioned with its head over the tube of a firework to illustrate what not to do after lighting a firework. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission held a safety demonstration on Tuesday on the grounds of the Washington Monument to illustrate the perils. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson gives an interview to The Associated Press at the agency's headquarters in Washington on Tuesday, April 17, 2012. (Associated Press)
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Swimmers and a diver work to save sunken boats at Pass-a-Grille, Fla. Marina on June 26, 2012. High winds and heavy rains spawned by the approaching Tropical Storm Debby caused the damage. (Associated Press/Tampa Bay Times)
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Well-wishers leave candles at a vigil on June 25, 2012, at the site of the collapsed roof of the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario, as rescue workers continue attempts to secure the building before searching for any survivors. (Associated Press/The Canadian Press)
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Jeff Corum Jr. stands in the charred ruins of his father's house on Kings Canyon Road in Bellvue, Colo., on Monday, June 25, 2012, after authorities allowed residents to return home. The Corum home was destroyed in the High Park wildfire, burning near Fort Collins. (AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda)
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Deputy Rick Swain (left) and Jason Willis (right) guide Mr. Willis' airboat, which is carrying to safety an elderly resident stranded by floodwaters west of Brooksville, Fla., on Monday, June 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Tampa Bay Times, Will Vragovic)
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A woman cries for her four children, whom she lost in a landslide in Bududa, Uganda, on Tuesday, June 27, 2012. Massive mudslides induced by torrential rains destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of the country's east, killing scores of people, officials said. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)
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A home lifted from its foundation sits next to a flooded yard in St. Pete Beach, Fla., on Monday. Gov. Rick Scott has declared a statewide emergency as an estimated 35,000 homes and businesses have lost electricity due to the slow-moving storm. (Tampa Bay Times photographs via Associated Press)
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Wildfires burn west of Colorado Springs, Colo. on Sunday, June 24, 2012, as the sun sets. (AP Photo/Colorado Springs Gazette, Susannah Kay)
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The roof of an apartment building near was destroyed on Sunday, June 24, 2012, in Bladensburg, Md. A mircoburst, a small concentrate downdraft, struck the area on Friday evening. (Raymond Thompson/The WashingtonTimes)
