Fire & Ice - January 2010

FIRE & ICE

JANUARY 2010

People enjoy a late afternoon walk on the frozen Lake of Menteith, on January 4, 2010 in Scotland

The Tungurahua volcano spew ashes and lava on January 11, 2010, in Cotalo, Ecuador, 135km south of Quito

A orange is encrusted in ice Monday, January 11, 2010 in Winter Garden, Florida, as citrus growers continued spraying water on their citrus trees to protect the fruit from sub-freezing temperatures.

Two men sit on a bridge to watch an annular solar eclipse in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China on January 15, 2010.

Ice and snow cover Madrid's famous landmark Cibeles fountain in downtown Madrid On January 11, 2010. Snow and icy weather blanketed large parts of Spain and Europe.

A ball of fire erupts within a thick cloud of smoke on December 19, 2009 in Somalia's capital Mogadishu after a petrol station caught fire in the K5 area. AU peacekeepers and Somalia government forces rallied to secure the area and, assisted by locals, attempted to extinguish the blaze whose cause was reportedly linked to insurgents

British Conservative MP Edward Leigh reacts as he enters the freezing waters of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, central London January 8, 2010

Performers dressed in Santa Claus costumes spit fire during a break in a Sichuan opera show in Suining, Sichuan province, China on December 19, 2009.

People on a frozen lake at Shichahai, a former imperial garden in central Beijing on January 12, 2010

Fire rages through a forest in Valparaiso city, 121 km (75 miles) northwest of Santiago, Chile on December 26, 2009. More than 1,200 acres of land were burned due to multiple fires near Valparaiso city but with no reported cases of deaths or injuries.

A tugboat makes its way through ice, as seen from the 65 foot U.S. Coast Guard cutter Wire during an ice-breaking mission on the Hudson River near Kingston, New York January 11, 2010.

An employee works as molten metal flows for the first time at the new Hyundai Steel mill in Dangjin, about 123 km (76 miles) southwest of Seoul, South Korea on January 6, 2010. Hyundai Steel's first-ever integrated blast furnace has an annual production capacity of 4 million tons of steel products

Sled hockey player Nikko Landeros, of Berthoud, Colorado (right), takes part in a scrimmage with Tyler Carron in the Boulder Valley YMCA in Lafayette Colorado on January 2nd, 2010. Three years ago, high school wrestlers Landeros and Carron lost their legs when they were hit by a car while changing a flat tire. It didn't take long for Landeros to pick up sled hockey, and he'll be competing in Vancouver in the Paralympics

Lava erupts from a rift and flows down the slope of Nyamulagira volcano, 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Goma, North Kivu, Congo on January 3, 2010.

Buses are encrusted in ice and snow at the back lot of a bowling alley in the Omaha, Nebraska suburb of Elkhorn, where a fire was being put out, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010.

Small fires burn on the hillsides above the in the southern German town of Pottenstein on January 6, 2010, part of an annual festival traditionally held to ward off evil spirits from the past year.

People walk on the frozen Lake Reschen reservoir beside the former church tower of the Village of Graun in South Tyrol in Northern Italy January 8, 2010. The village was destroyed and the valley flooded in 1950, due to damming up the Etsch river to produce electricity

A house on Richhill Street in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, is engulfed in flames early Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. A coroner has confirmed that two children died in the house fire, though a woman escaped as did two other children who jumped off a roof into the arms of a police officer.

A hoar frost clings to trees as the sun sets over fields on January 7, 2010 in Knutsfod, United Kingdom.

Fire fighters put out a fire which erupted after Thursday's explosion at a petrochemical plant in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China on January 8, 2010. Five people were confirmed dead and one still missing since Thursday in the explosion at the plant belonging to China's top state-owned oil firm CNPC, Xinhua news agency reported.

Thousands of anglers cast lines through holes created in the surface of a frozen river during a contest to catch trout in Hwacheon, 120 kilometers northeast of Seoul, South Korea on January 10, 2010. The contest is part of an annual ice festival which draws over 1,000,000 visitors every year

Hundreds of people holding lit flares aloft gather to submit a petition outside the residence of Iceland's President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson in Reykjavik January 2, 2010. Iceland's president said on Thursday December 31, 2009 that he would delay signing an amended bill to repay more than $5 billion lost by savers in Britain and the Netherlands when the island's banks collapsed

Icicles cling to strawberries Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, in Lakeland, Florida. Farmers were spraying their crops to help protect them against the unusually cold temperatures

A young man takes shelter (lower right) as a huge fire engulfs a residential area in Makati City, suburban Manila on December 23, 2009. The fire gutted around 700 houses, affecting some 3,000 families.

An ice climber makes his way up the walls of a stone quarry near the central German city of Fuerthon January 14, 2010

Germany's Hannes Schwarz performs a show with fire effects in the finale TV show "The Super Talent" in Cologne, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009.

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