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The bus was evacuating prisoners from a penitentiary in the fire’s path when it got caught in the flames, rescue workers reported.

Two wildfires burning in Colorado on Friday prompted the evacuations of the homes of 1,700 people as well as more in neighboring foothills where dozens of houses were burned in a blaze last month.

Authorities in Utah evacuated a passenger plane Thursday morning after receiving a bomb threat, an spokeswoman for the Salt Lake City airport said. The SkyWest plane, carrying 46 passengers and three crew members, was en route to Salt Lake City from Helena, Montana, when the threat was "called in," said airport spokeswoman Barbara Gann.

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Flooding caused by heavy rain that's lashed parts of the upper Midwest forced the evacuation Friday of dozens of homes in the small Minnesota ...

The Eiffel Tower and the park around it were evacuated Tuesday night after a bomb alert, police said.

Residents displaced by a giant wildfire near Boulder, Colorado, began returning home Sunday while, 40 miles to the north, another fire forced evacuations west of Loveland.

A wind-driven wildfire in the rugged Colorado foothills spread across 5 1/2 square miles Monday, destroying an unknown number of homes and triggering the evacuation of 1,000 others, authorities said.

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As Hurricane Earl continues to spin toward the East Coast, authorities in North Carolina are ordering more people to get out of the way.

A town that had been evacuated because of the threat of flooding filled up again with tens of thousands of people after the Indus River broke its embankments.

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