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ROD LAMKEY JR./THE WASHINGTON TIMES D.C. Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe discusses light-duty assignments before a D.C. Council hearing at the Wilson Building in the District on Wednesday. He is mulling a change in policy that would offer 90 days rather than 30 days of limited-duty assignments to all sick, injured or pregnant firefighters and paramedics.
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A wildfire burns near Los Alamos, N.M., on Tuesday, June 28, 2011. Thousands of residents calmly fled from the town that's home to the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory, ahead of an approaching wildfire that sent up towering plumes of smoke, rained down ash and sparked a spot fire on lab property where scientists 50 years ago conducted underground tests of radioactive explosives. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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** FILE ** The Obama administration recently decided to release 30 million barrels of oil from the country's emergency reserve as part of a broader international response to lost oil supplies caused by turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter, File)
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The University of California San Diego's engineering institute at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is illuminated by flames behind it in Los Alamos, N.M., on Tuesday. Thousands of people were driven from their homes, but officials tried to dispel concerns about the safety of sensitive lab materials. (Associated Press)
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FEMA housing inspector Travis Rule, left, from Fort Myers, Fla., talks with Burlington, N.D., resident Vern Erck about his flood damaged home in Minot, N.D. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Debris from the Souris River surrounds a house in Minot, N.D. As the river hit its record-shattering peak and began a slow retreat, residents looked ahead to an arduous rebuilding job while continuing to deal with short-term obstacles such as sharing the homes of friends and relatives, traffic tie-ups and an advisory to boil drinking water. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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An aerial view of flooded homes in Burlington, N.D. Just 375 of the 4,000 homes in flooded areas were insured for floods, FEMA spokesman John Ashton said. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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National Archives via Associated Press In New York City, Tom Lee's design for a fallout shelter's utility sewing room shows a craft room with elegant black-and-white-striped banquettes that could be converted into beds in the event of a disaster.
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A wildfire crests over the hills above Los Alamos National Labs on June 26, 2011, in New Mexico. (Associated Press/The New Mexican)
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The wreckage of the plane that killed Dr. Stephen Hatch and his wife, Kim, on Friday is seen in Charlevoix, Mich. Austin Hatch, 16, is in critical condition. (Associated Press)
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Amtrak passenger cars smolder after the train was struck by a semitrailer north of Fallon, Nev., on Friday, June 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Liz Margerum, Reno Gazette Journal)
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In this aerial photo, a Conoco gas station is surrounded by sand bags, the flood waters of the Souris River and an oil slick Friday, June 24, 2011, in Minot, N.D. North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple says the Souris River is flowing over most levees in Minot as it surges past a 130-year-old record level. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Phil Mendelson, chairman of the Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary, said, “The biggest issue here ... has to be the lack of clarity.” (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Trainer Lynn Whiting walks through the stable area Thursday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., surveying damage to at least nine barns by an apparent tornado Wednesday night. No horses or people were injured in the storm, but Thursday's scheduled races were canceled.
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Waterford Development is building 89 condominiums at Rhodes Hill Square in Arlington. The three low-rise buildings have a red brick exterior and white trim.
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People access damage at barn 40 int Churchill Downs after storms passed through the area in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, June 22, 2011. (AP Photo/The Courier-Journal, Pam Spaulding)
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Washington Nationals relief pitcher Drew Storen (22) celebrates the 2-1 win over the Seattle Mariners with catcher Wilson Ramos (3) during a game Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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Family and friends of some of the crash victims spend time at a personal, makeshift memorial on The Charles A. Langley Bridge near the Fort Totten Metro Station in Washington, D.C. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Judith Fernandez, sister of crash victim Ana Fernandez, wipes tears from her eyes as she spends time at a personal memorial to her sister and several of the other victims, on The Charles A. Langley Bridge near the Fort Totten Metro Station. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Keonda King whose little sister Lavonda "Nikki" King was killed in the crash, helps her nephew, Lavonda's son Andre, 5, write a note on his mother's memorial on The Charles A. Langley Bridge near the Fort Totten Metro Station in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, June 22, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
