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    2020 in review: Fire, floods and other natural disasters we survived

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    2020 in review: Fire, floods and other natural disasters we survived

    Australia saw giant bushfires that left many homes razed, and not just the human kind


    Published:  December 16, 2020 14:00 Reuters  and  Compiled by Christian Borbon, Senior Web Editor
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    A wallaby is seen in burnt bushland on Kangaroo Island, Australia. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Embers are seen from a burning tree during the Glass Fire in St. Helena, California. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Residents carry their belongings recovered from their houses damaged by a mudslide, caused by heavy rains brought by Storm Eta, as the search for victims continue in the buried village of Queja, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Stephanie Adams embraces her mother, April Beard, while searching through the remnants of Adams's destroyed home for mementos from her significant other, who passed away late last year, in a neighborhood severely damaged by wildfire in Medford, Oregon. Image Credit: Reuters
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    A home is seen destroyed in the aftermath of Hurricane Delta in Creole, Louisiana. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Flames rise as a wildfire burns near the village of Kechries, Greece. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Homes in a village are flooded after the River Nile broke the dykes in Jonglei State, South Sudan. Image Credit: Reuters
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    A man pulls an injured horse rescued near the erupting Taal Volcano in Talisay, Batangas, Philippines, Image Credit: Reuters
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    Rescue operations take place on a site after an earthquake struck the Aegean Sea, in the coastal province of Izmir, Turkey. Image Credit: Reuters
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    A Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) fire brigade member attempts to control a fire in a tract of the Amazon jungle in Apui, Amazonas State, Brazil. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Floods caused by torrential rain leave damage in Kumamura, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Image Credit: Reuters
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    A man takes a break from cleaning his house covered in mud after flooding caused by Typhoon Vamco, in San Mateo, Rizal province, Philippines. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Boys are seen on a fallen tree after the water levels at Lake Naivasha bulged to record high, pushing hundreds of people from surrounding farms around Naivasha town within Nakuru county, Kenya. Image Credit: Reuters
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    The St. Mark's Basilica is reflected in the flooded St. Mark's Square during evening high water in Venice, Italy. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Large white geotextile sheets cover northern Italy's Presena glacier in order to delay melting on skiing slopes and to reflect sunlight during summer months, at Passo del Tonale, near Trento, Italy. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Flood-affected people collect drinking water from a tube-well in Bogura, Bangladesh Image Credit: Reuters
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    Firefighters face strong winds as they head up a hillside to battle a wind-driven wildfire near Irvine, California. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Residents bathe, wash and pump water in their destroyed village following the damage caused by Typhoon Vamco, in Rodriguez, Rizal province, Philippines. Image Credit: Reuters
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    A damaged house is seen in Saint-Martin-Vesubie, southern France, as clean-up operations continue after storm Alex hit the Alpes-Maritimes department, bringing record rainfall in places and causing heavy flooding that swept away roads and damaged homes, France. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Vehicles are seen along Interstate 80 as flames from the LNU Lighting Complex Fire burn on both sides on the outskirts of Vacaville, California. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Workers demolish a building damaged by rain in the UNESCO World Heritage site of the old city of Sanaa, Yemen. Image Credit: Reuters
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    A girl is carried by her father across floodwaters in the Jatinegara area after heavy rains in Jakarta, Indonesia Image Credit: Reuters
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    Vehicles are submerged at a plot flooded by the Chamelecon River due to heavy rain caused by Storm Iota, in La Lima, Honduras. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Trees are illuminated by a burning fire below during the CZU Lightning Complex Fire in Boulder Creek, California. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Johnny Islas, a firefighter from Las Vegas, monitors embers from a firing operation near the Obenchain Fire in Butte Falls, Oregon. Image Credit: Reuters
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    People sit atop a bus roof while others wade through the flooded road during monsoon rain in Karachi, Pakistan. Image Credit: Reuters
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    A girl plays on a flooded street after heavy rains in New Delhi, India. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Flames illuminate smoke over the city as strong winds fan a fire that broke out on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa, Image Credit: Reuters
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    French firefighters extinguish a fire in a burning field of wheat during harvest season in Aubencheul-au-Bac, France. Image Credit: Reuters
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    A tanker drops fire retardant above a house as the Bobcat Fire burns near Juniper Hills, California. Image Credit: Reuters

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