The Peak Southern California Fire Season
LOS ANGELES – Firefighters reported progress Tuesday against a gigantic blaze on the edge of Los Angeles that might be just a preview of even greater dangers ahead. The peak Southern California fire season hasn't even started yet. The worst fires typically flare up in the fall, when ferocious Santa Ana winds can drive fires out of wilderness areas and into suburbs. As a result, Southern California could be in for a long wildfire season.
"When you see a fire burning like this, with no Santa Ana winds, we know that with the winds, it would be so much worse, so much more intense," said Los Angeles County fire Capt. Mark Whaling.
The Santa Anas are so devastating when they carry fire because they sweep down from the north and reach withering speeds as they squeeze through wilderness canyons and passes and plunge into developed areas. Read Full Story >>
Tropical Storm Erika Near Northern Leeward Islands
Caribbean basin near the northern Leeward Islands, the US National Hurricane Center said.
Island governments across the region issued storm watches in preparation for the arrival of Erika, which at 2100 GMT was moving west-northwest at a steady nine miles (15 kilometers) per hour, the Miami-based NHC said.
Maximum sustained winds were almost 50 miles per hour (85 kilometers per hour), and "some slow strengthening is forecast during the next couple of days," the center said.
A tropical storm has winds of up to 105 mph (165 kph) before it is classified as hurricane force.
On its current route Erika was expected to remain northeast of the Leeward Islands.
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Duggar Family Expecting 19th Child (VIDEO)
The Duggar family's famous brood is about to get just a little larger. The family went on the "Today Show" to announce that they are expecting their 19th child. Mrs. Duggar is almost three months pregnant. The family adheres to the religious belief that you shouldn't use birth control, instead letting God determine how many children you have.
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624 lb. Mako Shark Caught By Taylor Sears
Total Pro Sports - If you thought catching the King of Common Carps would put up the fight of a lifetime, think again.
Taylor Sears, a 20-year-old man from Scituate, Massachusetts reeled in a 624-pound mako shark on Thursday. The 10-foot monster is the largest male mako shark ever to be recorded in the Atlantic Ocean may even be the largest male mako ever caught anywhere. As stated by Dr. Greg Skomal of the state division of Maritime Fisheries, "we didn't think they got this big basically."
Sears is no stranger to fishing the deep seas, but the Massachusetts Maritime Academy junior will remember not be forgetting the feeling of this big catch anytime soon.
"I’ve caught a million sharks before, but never anything this feisty."
We are impressed with the sharpshooter he put on the giant shark, but would have been even more impressed had he caught this baby while fishing from a kayak.
Check out the pics of this trophy catch.
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Bikini-clad teacher Tiffany Shepherd
A Florida biology teacher fired after posing for racy pictures has landed a new career – in pornography.
Tiffany Shepherd, 31, made headlines in April after bikini-clad pictures of her on a fishing charter got her canned from Port St. Lucie High School. She turned to doing porn, she told a Florida news outlet, after losing custody of two of her three kids to her ex-husband and sending out 2,500 resumes – some even to prisons – without landing a new teaching job.
"I'm not particularly proud of it. To be honest, I hate it," Shepherd told Page2live.com. "I'm an educated woman, but I never thought it would come to this. No one gets brought up thinking they'll be a floozy." Full Story Here >>
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