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In this photo provided by Eric Peter Abramson, a line of buses are destroyed after a wild fire passed through Gold Hill, Colo. on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Gov. Bill Ritter declared a state of emergency Tuesday as officials nearly doubled the fire's estimated size to more than 7,100 acres, or 11 square miles. At one point the plume from the fire could be seen in Wyoming, 90 miles to the north. (AP Photo/Eric Peter Abramson)
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A spotter plane and large slurry bomber past over a burning home in Boulder, Colo. on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Gov. Bill Ritter declared a state of emergency Tuesday as officials nearly doubled the fire's estimated size to more than 7,100 acres, or 11 square miles. At one point the plume from the fire could be seen in Wyoming, 90 miles to the north. (AP Photo/The Daily Camera, Mark Leffingwell)
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A firefighting helicopter flies over a plume of smoke from a wildfire west of Boulder, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Kathryn Scott Osler)
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A group of Sunshine residents discuss the fate of their homes before Gov. Bill Ritter and Boulder Sheriff Joe Pelle spoke to the media and concerned residents at a staging area in Boulder, Colo., Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, after concluding a tour of the fire area. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Craig F. Walker)
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Homeowner Phil Helper listens to a group of Sunshine residents discuss the fate of their homes at a staging area in Boulder, Colo., Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Gov. Bill Ritter spoke media and concerned residents at the staging area after he and Boulder Sheriff Joe Pelle concluded a tour of the fire area. (AP Photo/The Denver Post, Craig F. Walker)
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Dee Spencer, right, who lost her home in a wildfire near Boulder, Colo., on Monday is comforted by Beth Byerlein after a briefing on the fire in Boulder, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Firefighters are fighting the blaze that forced the evacuation of over 3,000 people. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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A slurry bomber works against the wildfire near Boulder, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter has declared a state of emergency as officials nearly doubled the fire's estimated size to more than 7,100 acres, or 11 square miles. At one point, the plume from the fire could be seen in Wyoming, 90 miles to the north. (AP Photo/Daily Camera, Paul Aiken)
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Suparporn Hanson (right) of Riverside, Calif., waits for her daughter, Tiffany Hanson, who was on board Thai Airways International Flight 794, to arrive at the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport late Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, in Los Angeles. Federal authorities were interviewing passengers and crew aboard the Los Angeles-bound flight from Bangkok after a bomb threat written in poorly worded English was spotted on a bathroom mirror on the plane, authorities said. (AP Photo/Richard Hartog)
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Debris crush a car outside the Christchurch Catholic Cathedral after an earthquake rocked Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. The 6.3-magnitude quake hit at the height of a busy workday, toppling tall buildings and churches, crushing buses and killing dozens of people in one of the country's worst natural disasters. (AP Photo/NZPA, David Wethey) NEW ZEALAND OUT, NO ARCHIVES, NO SALES
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David Anderson covers his damaged roof with a blue tarp, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 in Raymondville, Texas, after tropical storm Hermine swept through the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Workers clean up a pile of debris from a collapsed metal building, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 in Raymondville, Texas, after Tropical storm Hermine swept through the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A car passes by a stop sign, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 in South Padre Island, Texas, after tropical storm Hermine swept through the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Manager Juan Cortez surveys a room at his motel, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 in Raymondville, Texas. The motel lost a portion of its roof when tropical storm Hermine swept through the area. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A car makes its way around a broken tree in San Antonio, Texas as Tropical Storm Hermine brings rains and winds to the area, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara)
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A pedestrian holds an umbrella in downtown San Antonio, Texas Tuesday Sept. 7, 2010 as Tropical Storm Hermine dumps rains in the area. Numerous Central Texas counties remain under a flash flood watch until midnight Tuesday according to the National Weather Service. Two to 5 inches of rain are expected to fall in the area. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara)
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A commuter waits on a empty platform at the closed Victoria underground station in London, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Millions of Londoners are struggling to get to work by road, rail boat and bicycle as a strike by London Underground workers shuts down much of the city's subway system. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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A pedestrian holds an umbrella in downtown San Antonio on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010, as Tropical Storm Hermine dumps rain in the area. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara)
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** FILE ** In this photo provided by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, left, the goodwill ambassador of UNHCR, sits with Pakistani flood-affected women during her visit to a camp for people displaced by heavy floods in Nowshera, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/United Nations High Commission for Refugees, J. Tanner)
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In this July 6, 2010 photo, Dr. Dan Ivankovich, left, helps his patient Bazelais Suy blow out the candles during Suy's birthday party Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Suy is a student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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In this photo taken Feb. 24, 2010, Bazelais Suy rests next to a motivational sign after attempting to stand at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, as he recovers from surgery to repair his shattered spine. Suy is a Haitian student activist whose spine was crushed when a university building collapsed in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last January. He was airlifted to Chicago for six months of intensive rehabilitation and recently returned to Haiti with hopes of helping rebuild the country. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
