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An ongoing drug war outside prompted 73 year old Arlie Clark to board up her windows, despite the stifling summer heat. Days before, bullets had come crashing through the glass, narrowly missing family members.

Long days and sleepless nights make mornings difficult for Randee Reylene Studdert, 22, a part-time cocktail waitress. Studdert keeps her 20-month old baby in the bathroom at night rather than find room on the floor of a one-room apartment housing…

A doctor works over a dying child as her mother stands by. Two brothers sit with their dying mother. This is Kurdish refugee camp in Turkey.

An elderly refugee woman is assisted by her friends as she feels faint while waiting in a bread line in the Turkish Village of Cukurca near a refugee camp on the Iraqi border. Authorities have set up a food and supply distribution center in the…

Officer Damian Garcia trains his gun on two car theives, while a sheriff's helicopter hovers above. Note, It's not dust on the print but pieces of reeds blown by the helicopter.

New York City firefighter Kevin Shea dangles from a single rope 13 floors above mid-town, clutching a worker in his arms who was trapped in a window buring while firemen on the roof hand-held the pair and lowered them to safety floors below.

Kurdish refugees in a remote camp in the Turkish mountains, cower from the downdraft of a relief bearing helicopter.

A monsterous wave crashes through the patio doors of a Florida beachfront home catching maintenance worker Dave Foley by surprise. Huge swells were caused by Hurricane Grace far out in the Atlantic.

Clouds of smoke billowed from the Oakland Hills fire as people in San Francisco's Delores Park went about their usual Sunday afternoon activities.

During the worst fires the northwest has seen in over 100 years, firefighters and volunteers were overwhelmed. This firefighter lost his balance and somersaulted over a fence while running to escape the flames.