Some of the victims had been wearing backpacks equipped with airbags that can help keep people on the surface of an avalanche, but had not pulled the cords to deploy the bags, the report said.
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Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2026
Peter Barnum, one of the people on shore who raced to the rescue, described the exhaustion of one of the victims, the father.
Andrabi dismissed the accusation, saying Pakistan conducts operations against militants with care to avoid civilian casualties.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2026
Israeli strikes in Lebanon have caused significant civilian casualties and the displacement of more than 1 million people, according to the nonprofit Project HOPE.
The analysis, released Friday by the California Department of Insurance and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, found that meeting wildfire safety standards for roughly 30,000 homes within the Eaton and Pacific Palisades burn areas would significantly cut average annual losses.
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City News Service,
Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026
Corona del Mar’s boys volleyball team recently suffered a couple of losses in the Sunset League.
This year, the unusually warm weather in March, plant abundance and a healthy amount of prey were early signals to rattlesnakes to begin their activity.
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Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
Noise could disrupt the whales’ foraging behavior, while increased global warming — tied to the burning of fossil fuels, including oil and gas — could change where their prey fish live, Kiszka said.
However, austere measures implemented to comply with the program translated into big sacrifices for the Surinamese people, including the phasing out of fuel, water and electricity subsidies.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Mar. 2026
That was one of our very strong stakes in the ground, to have a nuclear meltdown where the mountain collapses and Sinatra sacrifices herself.
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