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Vehicles drive on a road during a wildfire in the Carmel Heights near Haifa, northern Israel, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. A massive forest fire that scorched part of northern Israel killed scores of people Thursday, officials said. Fire officials said the blaze, which torched some 800 acres (325 hectares), remained out of control as nightfall arrived. (AP Photo/Avishag Shar-Yeshuv)
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An Israeli firefighter pours water over his head as he and others stand near one of the centers of an extensive wildfire in the northern Israeli community of Beit Oren, near Haifa, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. A massive forest fire that scorched part of northern Israel killed scores of people Thursday, officials said. Fire officials said the blaze, which torched some 800 acres (325 hectares), remained out of control as nightfall arrived. (AP Photo/Yaron Kaminsky)
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A driver gestures as he rides a motorcycle on a road next to smoke rising from a wildfire near Ein Hod in northern Israel, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. The worst forest fire in Israel's history devastated one of the country's few forested areas, and killed dozens of people. Homes were destroyed and some 15,000 were evacuated. Fire officials said the blaze, that is still out of control, has already torched some 1,600 acres (650 hectares). (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
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A woman walks on the beach as firefighting planes refill with sea water to be dumped over a wildfire in northern Israel, off the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Atlit, Israel Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Crews and equipment from around the world began arriving on Friday to help Israel's worst fire ever. The inferno, which also displaced thousands, is still raging through forests in northern Israel and on the outskirts of the country's third largest city, Haifa. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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People watch firefighting planes flying over after they refilled with sea water to be dumped over a wildfire in northern Israel, off the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Atlit, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Crews and equipment from around the world began arriving on Friday to help Israel's worst fire ever. The inferno, which also displaced thousands, is still raging through forests in northern Israel and on the outskirts of the country's third largest city, Haifa. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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A Greek firefighting plane participates in efforts to extinguish a wildfire over Ein Hod in northern Israel, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Foreign firefighters and aircraft poured into Israel Friday in an unprecedented wave of international assistance as the country battled a huge forest fire that has killed dozens of people and displaced thousands. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
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A burnt car is seen kibbutz Beit Oren, destroyed in a wildfire in northern Israel Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Crews and equipment from around the world began arriving on Friday to help Israel's worst fire ever. The inferno, which also displaced thousands, is still raging through forests in northern Israel and on the outskirts of the country's third largest city, Haifa. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
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An Israeli ultra-orthodox man takes a photo with his cellular phone of the damage caused to buildings in kibbutz Beit Oren, destroyed in a wildfire in northern Israel Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. European aircraft dumped tons of water over flames shooting from tall trees Friday in northern Israel as firefighters struggled for a second day to contain the country's worst-ever forest fire, which has killed dozens of people and displaced thousands. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Prison guards carry the coffin of Eran Weizel, killed when a wildfire in northern Israel set a bus alight which was carrying Israeli prison guards heading to rescue Palestinian inmates at a nearby prison, at the military cemetery in Haifa, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Foreign firefighters and aircraft poured into Israel Friday in an unprecedented wave of international assistance as the country battled a huge forest fire that has killed dozens of people and displaced thousands. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Israelis gather around the grave of Eran Weizel, killed when a wildfire in northern Israel set a bus alight which was carrying Israeli prison guards heading to rescue Palestinian inmates at a nearby prison, at the military cemetery in Haifa, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Foreign firefighters and aircraft poured into Israel Friday in an unprecedented wave of international assistance as the country battled a huge forest fire that has killed dozens of people and displaced thousands. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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A mourner places her hand on the grave of Eran Weizel, killed when a wildfire in northern Israel set a bus alight which was carrying Israeli prison guards heading to rescue Palestinian inmates at a nearby prison, at the military cemetery in Haifa, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. Foreign firefighters and aircraft poured into Israel Friday in an unprecedented wave of international assistance as the country battled a huge forest fire that has killed dozens of people and displaced thousands. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Firefighters rest on the road at sunrise after participating overnight in the efforts to gain control over a massive wildfire, still raging near by, in Tirat Hacarmel, northern Israel, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. The worst forest fire in Israel's history devastated one of the country's few forested areas, killing dozens of people as guards raced to rescue inmates at a prison in the fire zone, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of thousands. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2003 file photo, Kathryn Crosby, Bing Crosby's widow, arrives for "The Bob Hope Memorial Tribute" show at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences iin Los Angeles. Crosby is recovering from injuries suffered in a single vehicle traffic accident in the Sierra Nevada. Crosby, 77, suffered major injuries and her husband, Maurice William Sullivan, 85, was killed in the Nov. 4 accident on U.S. 50 east of Placerville, Calif., California Highway Patrol spokesman Dan Stark said today. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file)
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FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2010, file photo, Washington Capitals center Tomas Fleischmann (14) and Atlanta Thrashers defenseman Ron Hainsey (6) battle for the puck in the second period of an NHL hockey game in Atlanta. The Capitals have added experience to their defense by acquiring Scott Hannan in a trade in Tuesday, Nov. 30,2 010, that sends Fleischmann to the Colorado Avalanche. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
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A bus burst into flames as it raced to an Israeli prison during a massive forest fire on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. Dozens of prison guards participating in the rescue mission died, officials said, in one of the deadliest accidents in the nation's history. (AP Photo/Avishag Shar-Yeshuv)
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A coroner's vehicle waits outside a residential hotel where a suspect in the killing of publicist Ronni Chasen fatally shot himself as Beverly Hills Police were serving a search warrant on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, in Los Angeles. Chasen was shot to death in Beverly Hills, Calif., as she drove home on Nov. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)
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** FILE ** Crews clean up oil that washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill on Pensacola Beach in Pensacola, Fla., in June 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Spooneybarger, File)
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Cars are partially covered by water at the flooded parking lot of a car importer in Palmira, southern Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. According to meteorologists the "La Nina" climatic phenomenon is causing an exceptionally wet rainy season that has caused floods and landslides, killing over 130 people throughout Colombia. (AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora)
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People watch rescue efforts after homes fell due to heavy rain in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010. Flooding and landslides unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 30 people in Venezuela, forced thousands from their homes and idled an oil refinery. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
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People float on inner tubes through a flooded street in Higuerote, Venezuela, Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010. Flooding and landslides unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 30 people in Venezuela and forced thousands from their homes. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
