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Noah Berger / AP Firefighters burn off vegetation while trying to stop a wildfire called the Bench Fire from spreading in Warm Springs, Oregon, on July 25, 2026. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty A Tezutsu-shu, a traditional fireworks performer, is showered with sparks from tezutsu hanabi, hand-crafted bamboo tubes packed with gunpowder that erupt in a towering column of spark and flame, during the Tatebayashi Arm-Held Fireworks Festival in Tatebayashi, Gunma prefecture, Japan, on July…