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Firefighters in southeastern Australia managed Friday to keep four major blazes under control despite hot temperatures and erratic winds.
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Nine-year-old Phillip Watt shows his drawings of recent wildfires that ripped through his community at the Buxton Primary School in Buxton, north of Melbourne, Australia Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009.He remembers what he saw on that day when his town, his...
