The 2008 fire season led to almost $2.2m in hospital costs in the Reno-Sparks area of Nevada, while the 78,000 wildfires in California between 1999 and 2013 burned approximately 3.8m acres and incurred more than $4bn in suppression costs, a recent Union of Concerned Scientists study reports.
The Sparks area sounds great in concept.
As a STEM-focused university, Oregon Tech graduates do quite well in the job market, and many of our students graduate with job offers awaiting them, mainly in major metropolitan areas (usually, for our graduates, the Portland Metropolitan Area in Oregon, Bay Area in California, Seattle-Tacoma Area in Washington, and Reno-Sparks Area in Nevada).
An upper-level disturbance that had moved across the frontal boundary the previous evening sparked an area of thunderstorms that morphed into a squall line.
The need for therapies offering improved efficacy in the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer (CaP) has sparked an area of intense research.
The search zone was tightened on Thursday after a US navy "towed pinger locator" picked up audio signals in the area, sparking hopes that the plane's black box was in the area.
It is thought they were taking photos or filming in the area, sparking suspicions from the police.
Protesters, enraged by what they see as an assimilation of Alevi religious traditions, gathered outside the construction site before police tried to clear the area, sparking running battles that ran into the night, with barricades being set up in the roads in an effort to halt the police water cannons. .
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Judges commented that the Guardian has "been sparking debate in this area long before anybody else".
