Fire at California food plant prompts evacuations

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KTVU
Massive Salinas fire is too dangerous to fight
A massive fire that broke out in Salinas has prompted a shelter-in-place order. Because of concerns about a possible ammonia leak, it is too dangerous for firefighters to approach the Taylor Farms facility, so the fire is being allowed to burn.
Associated Press
Fire contained at California food plant, evacuations remain
Firefighters contained a massive blaze at a central California food processing plant that prompted authorities to tell thousands of nearby residents to evacuate Thursday and to order tens of thousands more to stay inside their homes. The fire started Wednesday night at the Taylor Farms packaged salad plant in Salinas, about 110 miles (177 kilometers) south of San Francisco. The flames were under control by late morning Thursday, but the shelter-in-place and evacuation orders remained while hazardous materials crews worked the scene, said Sophia Rome, a spokesperson for the city of Salinas.
Associated Press
Wind whips destructive wildfires in New Mexico, Colorado
Firefighters scouted the drought-stricken mountainsides around a New Mexico village on Wednesday as they looked for opportunities to slow a wind-driven wildfire that a day earlier had burned at least 150 homes and other structures while displacing thousands of residents and forcing the evacuation of two schools. Homes were among the structures that had burned, but officials did not have a count of how many were destroyed in the blaze that torched at least 6.4 square miles (16.6 square kilometers) of forest, brush and grass on the east side of the community of Ruidoso, said Laura Rabon, spokesperson for the Lincoln National Forest. Rabon announced emergency evacuations of a more densely populated area during a briefing Wednesday afternoon as the fire jumped a road where crews were trying to hold the line.
NBC
Adm. Stavridis: Ukraine strikes major warship - ‘a real blow’ to Russian navy, military ‘morale’
Former Secretary of Defense William Cohen and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Admiral James Stavridis join Andrea Mitchell to discuss the significant damage done to a major Russian warship by a Ukrainian missile strike. “This is a big important ship,” says Stavridis. “They’re a very capable class of ship, about 15,000 guns. This is a real blow to the Russian navy and to their military’s morale.”
NextShark
Four men arrested for ‘raping’ Bengal monitor lizard in western India
Four men have been arrested after one of the accused’s phones was discovered to contain a video of them gang-raping a Bengal monitor lizard at the Sahydari Tiger Reserve in Maharashthra, India. CCTV footage from the Maharashtra Forest Department showed the four men lurking around the forest and trespassing into the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve, which was created by the Indian government in 2008 to conserve Bengal tigers. In addition to the video of the men sexually abusing the monitor lizard, officials also found photos of various animals such as porcupines and deer on the mens’ phones.

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