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Company locates oil-spill pipe break

Associated Press / August 1, 2010

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MICHIGAN
BATTLE CREEK — Enbridge Inc., the Canadian owner of the ruptured pipeline that released crude oil into the Kalamazoo River, said yesterday that it has located the pipe break and the spill has been contained. The section had been inaccessible because it is in a marshy, oil-covered area. The company is preparing to remove the damaged section of pipe as its focus shifts to cleaning up the spilled oil, which it estimates at 820,000 gallons.

CALIFORNIA
Wildfire chars 22 square miles
PALMDALE — A wildfire smoldered in the high desert north of Los Angeles yesterday, spewing smoke into a nearby town as hundreds of firefighters worked to contain the two-day-old blaze. The fire has charred nearly 22 square miles of brush in the Antelope Valley. It was 62 percent contained yesterday afternoon and no structures were threatened, fire officials said. Some 1,300 firefighters were assigned to the fire.

HAWAII
US says drills not meant for N. Korea
HONOLULU — Monthlong military drills in the Pacific that conclude this weekend were intended only as training exercises to combat terrorism and piracy — and were not meant to send a message to North Korea, the commander of the drills said. Vice Admiral Richard W. Hunt said the biennial 14-nation Rim of the Pacific military exercises had been planned for two years.

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