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Demolition crews bring down Houston skyscraper (AP)

M.D. Anderson's Houston Main Building is imploded Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012, in Houston. Opened in 1952, the 20-story building was the regional headquarters for Prudential Insurance Company. Prudential sold the building in 1975.  (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick de la Torre) MANDATORY CREDITAP – It didn’t take long — mere seconds, in fact — to create a new hole in the skyline of Houston’s medical district.


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Demolition crews implode Houston building

Demolition crews used high explosives to implode the 20-story former Prudential Building that had been a landmark of the district landscape southwest of downtown Houston since 1952.

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Winds challenge crews battling AZ, NM wildfires (AP)

Houses saved from back burns from the Monument fire are seen Saturday, June 18, 2011 in Sierra Vista, Ariz. The fire continues to threaten Sierra Vista but firefighters got a handle on its most worrisome flare-up in Miller Canyon. The human-caused fire, which started Sunday, is now at more than 19,000 acres. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP – Authorities ordered more evacuations Sunday as crews battling a pair of wildfires in Arizona and on the New Mexico border faced extremely high winds that drove flames across containment lines and toward populated areas.


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Winds to challenge crews battling AZ, NM wildfires (AP)

A sky crane CH-44 drops water cooling off the edge of the track fire northeast of Raton, N.M., Friday, June 17, 2011.  Along the New Mexico-Colorado border, the winds Thursday pushed one fire toward breaks that had been carved into the rugged landscape by bulldozers. Crews had anticipated the fire's movement and were prepared to hold the line with help from helicopters and air tankers. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)AP – Extremely high winds are expected to challenge firefighters trying to protect homes threatened by a pair of fires in southern and eastern Arizona on Sunday.


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Crews race to build up levee ahead of floodwaters (AP)

A home is engulfed by flood water in Hamburg, Iowa, Monday, June 13, 2011. The rising Missouri River has ruptured two levees in northwest Missouri, sending torrents of floodwaters over rural farmland toward the Iowa town of Hamburg and the Missouri resort town of Big Lake. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP – Workers raced Tuesday to add several feet to a temporary levee that is now the only barrier between the small town of Hamburg and the menace of the rising Missouri River.


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Crews racing floodwaters to build up Iowa levee (AP)

AP – Crews are trying to beat floodwaters expected to arrive in Hamburg on Tuesday by building up a secondary barrier to protect the small Iowa town after the swollen Missouri River punched a massive hole in the main levee.

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Crews work to reopen St. Louis airport after storm (AP)

In this aerial photograph, debris is strewn about a neighborhood Saturday, April 23, 2011, in Bridgeton, Mo., following a Friday-evening tornado in the area. St. Louis' main airport was closed for business Saturday while crews cleaned up after a tornado tore through a terminal, causing several injuries and sending people scurrying for shelter as plated glass shattered around them. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)AP – A severe storm that struck the St. Louis area left homes flattened in suburbs around the main airport, which remained closed Saturday a day after being hit by a tornado.


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