Fires

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Fire damages Portland elementary school

AP News 11 days ago

Fire heavily damages southeast Portland elementary school; students, teachers escape unharmed More than 400 students escaped a three-alarm fire that heavily damaged a southeast Portland elementary school. Portland Fire Bureau spokeswoman Kim Kosmas says the school's 17 teachers also made it out ...

Dog saves family from fire after detectors fail

AP News 17 days ago

Dog saves Indiana family from house fire after smoke detectors apparently failed to work An eastern Indiana woman says her family's dog deserves a special treat after his barking saved her family from an early morning house fire. Laura Sizemore said Dash, ...

Huge fire breaks out in Saint Petersburg: reports

AFP Global Edition 18 days ago

A massive fire broke out late Tuesday at a facility owned by an industrial firm in Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg, Russian news agencies reported. The fire broke out in the northeastern Vyborg district of the former capital and spread to ...

Fire strikes historic Vt. general store _ again

AP News 19 days ago

In tiny Putney, Vt., fire destroys general store that was rising from ashes When a fire destroyed the beloved, centuries-old Putney General Store 18 months ago, some people here cried. The creaky wooden building where locals arrived for coffee, hardware and gossip, ...

16 killed in Philippine slum fire, including kids

AP News 20 days ago

16 killed in Philippine slum fire including women and children; cause of the blaze unknown A fire swept through a residential building as people slept in a slum community in the central Philippines on Monday, killing 16 residents including women and children. ...

India oil blaze toll rises to 11: report

AFP South Asian Edition 21 days ago

The death toll in a massive fire at an oil depot in western India has risen to 11, a report said late Sunday, as the blaze began to die out. The fire, caused by a suspected oil pipeline leak, broke out Thursday ...

10 dead as India oil blaze begins to die out: official

AFP South Asian Edition 21 days ago

A massive fire at an oil depot in western India has left 10 people dead, an official said Sunday, as the blaze began to die out. The fire, caused by a suspected oil pipeline leak, broke out Thursday night at the Indian ...

India oil blaze rages on, ten dead: official

AFP South Asian Edition 21 days ago

A massive fire at an oil depot in western India had left ten people dead, an official said Sunday, as the blaze raged on after more than 48 hours. The fire, caused by a suspected oil pipeline leak, broke out Thursday night ...

APTOPIX India Oil Depot Fire

AP News 23 days ago

Smoke and flames rise out of oil storage tanks at an oil depot in Jaipur, India, Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. Indian army troops Friday began efforts to put out a massive fire raging at an oil depot in western India, an official ...

Arson suspected as fire destroys Ghana foreign ministry

AFP Global Edition 31 days ago

Ghana's President John Attah-Mills said Thursday he had ordered an inquiry into a suspicious fire that destroyed the foreign ministry building after police arrested three people for suspected arson. The fire that swept through the nine-storey building destroyed thousands of historical documents ...

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