This is pretty much unimaginably frightening. As we told you this weekend, Russia is currently being consumed by a group of uncontrollable wildfires. In this shocking video, a group of men desperately attempt to flee the inferno in their car.

[If BP is successful with its "static kill" of the oil well — plugging the well with cement and mud — the company will move on to the final "bottom kill" phase with a relief well. Image via AP]

A bunch of BP gas station owners are trying to revert back to the Amoco name, which was bought by BP, hoping to attract customers as some stations have seen a 40 percent drop in sales since the oil spill.

Fires have been raging in Russia since last week due to record heat and dry fields and woodlands. Today, hundreds of new fires are raging and at least 28 people had died as of Wednesday. [AP]

Shocker: BP used too much of a poisonous chemical dispersant on the oil spill.

Unfuck The Gulf: the charity that lets you buy a t-shirt, contribute to charity, and watch small children screaming "fuck" on video, all for a good cause. Well. It probably wasn't necessary to use children, technically. Fucking BP!

The estimates on the oil spill in southern Michigan's Kalamazoo River are getting worse, with the EPA last night saying there could be one million gallons of oil in the water. And this is not the oil company's first spill.

The "BP squad," a group of federal investigators, are preparing a criminal probe of three companies involved in the Gulf oil spill: BP, Transocean, and everyone's favorite war profiteers, Halliburton. The companies' ties to regulators will be examined. [WaPo; Getty]

A boat struck a Gulf of Mexico oil well this morning, causing another oil spill.

Big news day for BP! Besides paying CEO Tony Hayward nearly $1 million a year to go away, the company also announced that it is setting aside a $32.2 billion fund for the Gulf of Mexico cleanup effort. [BBC]

After a storied 28-year career with BP, CEO Tony Hayward is said to be on his way out after discussing an "exit deal," with an announcement expected in the next 24 hours. Happy trails, Tony. We hardly knew you. [BBC]

The former chief electronics technician on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig yesterday told investigators that critical fire and gas leak alarms had been disabled for a year so that the rig's crew could sleep in. Sleepy time is important!

OK, it's only one sinkhole. Today, over 7 inches of rain fell in Milwaukee in two hours. A sinkhole swallowed an Escalade. It's complete madness! This has got to be the most exciting thing ever to happen in Miluwakee. (pic)

[A week after a pipeline explosion, workers are fighting to contain 1,500 tons of spilled crude in the Chinese port of Dalian. Workers are using their bare hands and 23 tons of oil-eating bacteria to clean up. Pic: AP]

As oil continues to gush seep from a hole deep under water, publishers are scrambling to get books written about the catastrophe. Six or more are currently in the works. One is coming out in September. It'll be a cliffhanger!

The government says new Gulf oil seepage is "not unlike an oil leak you might have in your car."

In addition to "seepage" detected at four sites around the well, small amounts of oil and gas are leaking from the new containment cap, and BP may try to kill the well again. Where's well assassin Pat Campbell? [Washington Post]

Remember the heady days of last weekend, when it seemed that BP had finally capped the leaky oil well? So much for that! Government tests yesterday detected a "seep a distance from the well." [Bloomberg; pic: AP]

It's been three days since BP's latest oil well cap was fitted, and so far no evidence of further leakage has been found. BP is hopeful the cap will contain the oil until a relief well is finished next month.

BP claims the new oil well cap is working nearly 48-hours after being fitted. VP Kent Wells said, "At this point there's no evidence that we don't have integrity." Ha! Oh, he was talking about the cap's integrity, not BP's.