Michelle Duff

Jan 24, 2025 | theashlandchronicle.com | Adrian Horton |Michelle Duff |Maya Yang

ODF’s six strike teams return home from California after two-week assignmentSALEM, Ore. – The Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) welcomes back 70 firefighters who’ve been assigned to the fires in Los Angeles County, California for the past two weeks. While in California, the six strike teams were split between the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire. “We’re happy to help however we can when we receive the call from one of our partner states,” said Chris Cline, ODF’s Fire Protection Division Chief.

Jan 24, 2025 | theashlandchronicle.com | Adrian Horton |Michelle Duff |Maya Yang

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Jan 24, 2025 | theguardian.com | Michelle Duff

Last month in the small settlement of Mele Maat, just outside Vanuatu’s capital, Port Vila, Alice Hawel was preparing lunch when the ground began to shake. She cowered on the dirt floor as giant boulders flew past the kitchen from the hillside above, sending a rock the size of a small car crashing through the thatched roof of one house, narrowly missing the bed where her grandmother slept.

Jan 15, 2025 | theguardian.com | Michelle Duff

Polls have opened in Vanuatu , a Pacific nation grappling with political instability and the logistics of holding a snap election in the aftermath of a 7.3-magnitude earthquake that killed at least 14 people and displaced thousands. As downtown Port Vila remained shuttered, with multiple buildings earmarked for demolition, some residents lined up in tents from 6.30am to vote.

Nov 25, 2024 | theguardian.com | Michelle Duff

The week before her three children died, Fa’aoso Tuivale and her husband took them for a swim in the river flowing behind their house in the Samoan village of Lauli’i. Itila, 3, and his twin siblings, Tamara and Sale, 13 months, had a fever and their parents hoped to cool them down. The children were ill with measles and were not vaccinated. When they worsened, on a Sunday, Fa’aoso took them to hospital in Apia, 9km away. They were seen, and sent home. The next day, they took Itila back to hospital.