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Girl dies in mine shaft fall
A 13-year-old girl who fell into a brush-covered Arizona mine shaft while riding an all-terrain vehicle was found dead at the bottom, and her 10-year-old sister was rescued with serious injuries, authorities said. The girls, 13-year-old Rikki Howard and 10-year-old Casie Hicks, were out for a holiday weekend ride on Saturday when their father, who was riding ahead of them on a dirt bike, noticed they were missing. "They were driving along and they went into the mine. It was a total accident," Mohave County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Sandy Edwards said.
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Firefighters contain blaze
A wildfire that has been burning for two months in Los Padres National Forest was fully contained, officials said. The California fire burned 971km2 of wilderness since being ignited by sparks from equipment used to repair a water pipe on July 4. Although the blaze is contained, it still is not fully controlled, meaning it is possible that some embers might blow across the containment line, officials said. Higher humidity and cooler weather helped firefighters gain on the fire in recent days. More than 1,300 firefighters and 10 aircraft were still working on the fire on Sunday.
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Woman delivers sextuplets
Wearing six hospital ID bracelets, proud father Ben Byler unfolded an envelope on Sunday and read out the names of the sextuplets his wife gave birth to the night before. Brady Christopher. Eli Benjamin. Ryan Patrick. Jackson Robert. Charlie Craig. MacKenzie Margaret. Those are the first and middle names of the Byler Six, the first sextuplet birth on record in Florida. The five boys and one girl, weighing between 0.9kg and 1.36kg each, were born to 29-year-old Karoline Byler of Wesley Chapel, Florida. "This has been quite the Labor Day weekend for Bayfront Medical Center," hospital spokeswoman Kanika Tomalin said.
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Beached shark dies
A 1.5m-long shark that washed up on a crowded New York City beach this weekend -- and was pushed back into the sea by beachgoers -- is dead. The shark frightened crowds at Rockaway Beach in the borough of Queens on Saturday morning when it splashed to shore. The thresher shark was not believed to pose any threat to humans, but it sent hundreds of swimmers scrambling out of the water. After the shark came ashore, several beachgoers pushed the fish back into the water. "It was like freaking out. Its tail was flopping everywhere," 10-year-old McKenzie Pontieri said in Sunday editions of the Daily News. The dead fish washed ashore further up the beach early on Sunday, city officials said.
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