Sentences with phrase «flooding led to fires»

The flooding led to fires and explosions in oil refinery tanks along the banks of the Kansas River.

Not exact matches

Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Dan Miller said Friday the 40 - year - old man was «pretty upset» as he led rescue workers to the end of Lee Street where flooding started.

If a flood causes a transformer to explode and leads to a fire, the fire could be covered.

But climate change is almost certain to lead to more frequent and / or more intense extreme events like fires, floods, and storms.

In other disasters the most powerful narrative can be one of blame - of the people who started a fire (leading at times to the demonization of a supposed arsonist), the government who did not build the flood defenses, the construction companies who broke building codes, or the emergency services who failed to do their job.

-- this huge drought, dust storms starting up in bigger volumes again, the Pakistan flood that displaced 20 million people, the Russian drought and fires that led to the highest spike in food prices ever recorded — that has an impact on poor people around the world.

The brochure for the workshop states: «Climate change caused by fossil fuel burning leads to increased risks of extreme events such as heat waves, droughts, fires, severe storms, floods which in turn have major health effects.»

Ecological surprises include rapid and abrupt changes in temperature and precipitation, leading to an increase in extreme events such as floods, fires and landslides, increases in eutrophication, invasion by alien species, or rapid and sudden increases in disease (Carpenter et al., 2005).

«A changing climate leads to changes in the frequency, duration and intensity of droughts, floods, storms, heatwaves and fire and will test the resilience of natural and human coping abilities.

For instance, if your «fear» of the cloud leads you to keep everything in paper form, you are almost certainly leaving your important client data at greater risk to theft, fire, flood, or snooping than if you use best practices in the cloud.

Collisions with other ships, fires on board, rouge waves, and severe weather storms that lead to flooding and sinking are among the past causes of cruise ship tragedies.

Fires, theft, vandalism, floods and other perils may all affect people in Austin, and they can lead to huge personal financial losses.