Disaster_Accident

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In this Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, photo, a pelican flies over new marsh grass in an area that had been impacted by the oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill near East Grand Terre Island, where the Gulf of Mexico meets Barataria Bay along the Louisiana coast. In the background is a dredging project initiated by the State of Louisiana. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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A volunteer from Moscow, who refused to be identified, tries to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow early Friday, Aug 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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A Russian Emergency Ministry Ka-32 helicopter spews water onto a burning a forest in Losiny Ostrov (Elk Island) national park in northeastern Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. The Emergency Situations Ministry said Thursday that the area engulfed by fires around the capital has shrunk by more than quarter over the past 24 hours.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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In this Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 photo made available Friday, Aug 13, 2010 volunteers from Moscow, who refused to be identified, try to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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A firefighter battling a fire in Losiny Ostrov (Elk Island) national park in northeastern Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. The Emergency Situations Ministry said Thursday that the area engulfed by fires around the capital has shrunk by more than quarter over the past 24 hours.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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In this Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 photo made available Friday, Aug 13, 2010 volunteers from Moscow, who refused to be identified, unload water, as they try to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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In this Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 photo made available Friday, Aug 13, 2010 volunteers from Moscow, who refused to be identified, deliver water, as they try to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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In this Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 photo made available Friday, Aug. 13 , 2010 volunteers from Moscow, who refused to be identified, cut a tree, as they try to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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In this Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010 made available Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 photo a volunteer from Moscow, who refused to be identified, tries to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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A volunteer from Moscow, who refused to be identified, tries to extinguish forest fire, which came close to a village of Kovrigino, some 74 km ( about 46 miles) east of Moscow early Friday, Aug 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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Oleg Mikhailov, 42, whose house burned to the ground cleans some coins he found at the site of a fire in the village of Kartonosovo affected by a wildfire, Ryazan region, some 180 km (111 miles) southeast of Moscow, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Hundreds of wildfires sparked by the hottest summer ever in Russia have engulfed large areas. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

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Residents remove belongings from their home as water from the South Skunk River floods neighborhoods in Colfax, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Steve Pope)

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A woman, no name given, prepares to place a candle tribute at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in St.Petersburg, where the lists of seamen who perished in submarine disasters are displayed, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Russian navy ships are flying flags at half-mast and memorial ceremonies are being held across the nation to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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A woman touches a shell, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010, in the St. Nicolas Cathedral, in St. Petersburg, Russia, filled with the soil from the sea bottom where the submarine disaster Kursk took place. Russian navy ships are flying flags at half-mast and memorial ceremonies are being held across the nation to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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People pray outside the St. Nicolas Cathedral, place, where the list of submarine disaster victims is displayed, in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Russian navy ships are flying flags at half-mast and memorial ceremonies are being held across the nation to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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A clergyman of the St. Nicolas Cathedral holds list of submarine disaster victims in St.Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Russian navy ships are flying flags at half-mast and memorial ceremonies are being held across the nation to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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People light candles at St. Nicolas Cathedral, place, where the list of submarine disaster is displayed, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Russian navy ships are flying flags at half-mast and memorial ceremonies are being held across the nation to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

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Crew members of the nuclear submarine Kursk, one of Russia's largest and most advanced submarines, stand on the ship deck during the naval parade in Severomorsk in this July 30, 2000 photo. Kursk Captain Gennady Lyachin stands at right. The Kursk submarine tragedy that killed 118 crew members was caused by fuel exploding in one of its torpedoes, the governmental commission investigating the accident has found, according to a news report Monday, July 1, 2002.(AP Photo/ Str)