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Local emergency responders are responding to a naphtha release and fire at a storage tank Friday at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Garyville, Louisiana. According to a statement from the petroleum company, the release and fire are contained within the refinery’s property, with no off-site impacts detected and no injuries reported. Air monitoring has also been deployed within the community

Fast-moving wildfires raced through Washington state on Friday, burning some homes and prompting evacuation orders for thousands of people in small rural communities. One of the largest blazes, the so-called Gray Fire near Spokane in eastern Washington, began around noon and a few hours later had surged through 4.7 square miles (12 square kilometers) of grass, timber and wheat, pushed by 35-

Up to three inches or rain set off flash flooding in the town of Tusayan at the Grand Canyon’s South Rim Tuesday, prompting the evacuation of more than 100 people from hotels and employee housing and the temporary closure of a major highway, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office said. Water was three feet deep on U.S. Highway 64 leading to the rim entrance, the office said. A longtime canyon