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The plan to replace for an october fire break — what are they saying? the i have been told by a government scientist, an adviser, rather, that the country is to be put back into a fire break over the half term because there is a fear that we will just be in this extended peak of infections, around one and five under 40s arent vaccinated, and theres a fear that as we go into theres a fear that as we go into the colder weather and to, you know, we traditionally get that surge of infections anywa...

Fire line, this highway right here so the fire doesnt jump the fire break into the virgin forest on the other side. by doing so this group, you have people doing structure protection and mop up. the backfire operation they hope will stop this fire right here. >> bill: inside these evacuated areas, multiple towns are empty except for police and fire and the crews that are protecting the structures. for all these 30,000 to 40,000 people who have been evacuated. we saw about 30 aircraft dipping int...

Firefighter. if you can imagine swinging a huge blade and you are scraping -- all the line, scraping all the vegetation off, you are down to bare mineral ground, that is what you need in order to try to create that fire break to try to -- fuel break to try to break that fire from going across. so it is very challenging work. you know, ive talked to a lot of our hot shot crews and our hand crews and they say that the camaraderie of the team environment and really feeling like the work that they d...

Front lines about the conditions firefighters are facing a hard job is basically getting harder. >> reporter: right. when i first started in the federal government, my boss told me he will never meet a harder working federal employee than someone who is a wildland firefighter. if you can imagine swinging a pulasky, basically a huge blade and you are scraping, cutting lines, scraping all the soil off, all the vegetation off, off to bare ground, thats what you need in order to try to create that f...

Stand: 03.08.2021 07:07 Uhr Während die Anzahl der Totalverluste von Schiffen auf einem Rekordtief ist, steigt die Zahl der Containerverluste. Das zeigt die neue Allianz-Schifffahrtsstudie, die der Versicherungskonzern am Dienstag vorgestellt hat. Im vorigen Jahr wurden dem Versicherer 49 Totalverluste gemeldet, zum Beispiel weil Schiffe untergegangen sind. Das ist ein neues Rekordtief. Doch auch die Zahl der gemeldeten Unfälle sank auf 2.700, ein Rückgang um 4 Prozent. Hauptursache wa...

That gap— kids have missed and how you fill that gap going forward. it wasnt that gap going forward. it wasnt that long — that gap going forward. it wasnt that long ago we are talking about future _ that long ago we are talking about future was meant to fill the gap for the extra _ future was meant to fill the gap for the extra lessons that were meant to fill the _ the extra lessons that were meant to fill the dad _ the extra lessons that were meant to fill the gap. but now kids are effectiv...

We lose the precious fire break that we get with the school holidays. if we do not do it now, we will have to ask ourselves when we will do it. this is the right moment, but we must do it cautiously and remember that this virus is sadly still out there, cases are rising and you can see the extreme contagiousness of the delta variant, but we have this immense consolation and satisfaction that there is no doubt at all that the vaccine programme, the massive vaccination programme, has very severely...

Immunity that has been built up by vaccination but also natural infection and the problem, as the health secretary was pointing out, you could wait until autumn, you might do a bit more vaccination, but we are coming to the end of the vaccination programme for adults and as yet there has been a green light for the vaccination of children. if you wait until the autumn you could then run into the flu season so there is more pressure on the nhs for more vulnerable groups. and with the summer, the b...

The disparity from state to state, its a red/blue split between those with high vaccination rates and those with low vaccination rates. mississippi at the bottom, less than 35%. mississippi, alabama, arkansas. if you had a resurgence or spike, would it be regional as opposed to national, so in those places with the low vaccination rates. >> absolutely, jim. think about vaccinations like a fire break thats dug into a forest fire, preventing the fire from jumping into new timber. a lot of, you kno...