Wikio - After the Fire

$250,000 reward over fatal fire (News.com.au)

Tue, 13 May 2008 01:37:00 GMT

THE Queensland Government has announced a $250,000 reward for information about a Brisbane guesthouse fire 18 years ago which killed five men.

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Teen Suffers Severe Burns in 'Blowtorch Game' (Fox News)

foxnewsonline@foxnews.com — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:47:59 GMT

A 14-year-old Wisconsin boy suffered burns to more than a quarter of his body after playing what the fire department described as a blowtorch game.

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FIRE SAVED LANSBURY'S DRUGGIE KIDS (PR-Inside.com Entertainment News)

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:47:09 GMT

Actress ANGELA LANSBURY fears drugs would have killed her children had a devastating domestic fire not forced the family to relocate to Ireland. The Murder, She Wrote star and her late husband Peter Shaw endured "a terrible time" after an inferno destroyed their much-treasured California abode in the late 1960s. Adding to their woes were children Deirdre [...]

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INTERVIEW: Brian Azzarello on Batman Gotham Knight (Major Spoilers)

Fri, 09 May 2008 17:25:55 GMT

One of the most sought-after writers in comics today, Brian Azzarello is one of the six acclaimed scribes to pen a segment within “Batman Gotham Knight,” the third in the ongoing series of DC Universe animated original PG-13 movies. Unlike many of his past works, Azzarello’s segment – entitled “Working Though Pain” – takes a decidedly [...]

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Girl who rescued schoolmates from fire to be made heroine (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:02:07 GMT

Kampala, Uganda - A 10-year old girl, who rescued an unknown number of her classmates from a school dormitory fire on April 14 before she and 19 others died in the inferno, is to be declared a national heroine, the Ugandan parliament confirmed Friday...

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Drowned Boy Had Been Playing in Pond (Red Orbit )

Fri, 09 May 2008 05:00:14 GMT

A SCHOOLBOY who was playing with friends on a sheet of polystyrene over a pond drowned after it broke, the fire service said today.

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Teen charged with setting fire (Cincinnati Enquirer)

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:01:00 GMT

COLERAIN TWP. - A teenage boy charged with setting a garage fire Wednesday is waking up this morning at the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center.

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House blaze mum thanks firefighters (York Press)

Thu, 08 May 2008 08:54:26 GMT

A MOTHER-OF-THREE today thanked all the people who helped her family when fire swept through the upstairs floor of their York home.

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Aliso Viejo Fire Started by Potheads (HolyCoast.com)

Wed, 07 May 2008 19:34:00 GMT

Saturday night I posted an item on a brush fire in Aliso Viejo that got my attention . It was quite a show with the fire department helicopter making water drops nearly on my head. It turns out the fire was started by local youths with a penchant for pot: ALISO VIEJO – A teenage boy smoking pot with two others caused a fire that burned more than 7 acres over the weekend,...

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Fire Starts At SJ Retirement Community (NBC11.com - Local News)

Wed, 07 May 2008 19:21:08 GMT

Crews had to evacuate dozens of people after a San Jose retirement community caught fire Wednesday.

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Kitchen fire causes hotel evacuation (CBC.ca)

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:06:36 GMT

Charlottetown's Delta Prince Edward Hotel was evacuated early Wednesday morning after a fire broke out in the kitchen.

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Care home evacuated in blaze drama (Bolton Evening News)

Wed, 07 May 2008 11:01:15 GMT

AN OLD people's home had to be evacuated following a chip-pan fire.

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Evacuations in midtown after FDNY, DOB visits (Queens Crap)

Tue, 06 May 2008 07:06:00 GMT

Two apartment buildings in Midtown were evacuated yesterday after the fire department was called in to check on a potential building collapse, officials said. A construction project at 311 W. 39th St. apparently jeopardized the structure of the nearby buildings enough for officials from the city Department of Buildings, an agency recently roiled by the resignation of its commissioner,...

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After Repairs to Building, Artists Return to Their Lofts (New York Times)

Tue, 06 May 2008 03:15:20 GMT

More than 100 artists have begun to return to their loft spaces in Brooklyn, about three months after the Fire Department cited their landlord for a flurry of code violations.

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Entertainment News: Spice Girl Geri Halliwell rescued after being trapped in lift (The Daily Record)

Mon, 05 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT

SINGER Geri Halliwell was trapped in a lift yesterday and had to be rescued by firefighters.

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Fire injures two in Estonian mill (Baltic Times)

Mon, 05 May 2008 15:48:19 GMT

TALLINN - A fire broke out at the Kehra paper mill on Sunday with two men slightly hurt. The alarm center received information at 2:48 a.m. that two paper machines on the ground floor of the Kehra Paper Mill had caught fire. A spokesman for the North-Estonianrescue center told BNS that it w

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Flying Pig notebook (Cincinnati Enquirer)

Mon, 05 May 2008 09:38:42 GMT

Because Sunday's course had to be rerouted to avoid a fire at mile 22 of the race, officials will take an exact measurement of the course today and contact USA Track and Field for recertification as an official marathon course.

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The Scar (Sustainability, Equity, Development)

Sun, 04 May 2008 20:26:00 GMT

... so much concerns the events of Christmas, 1970, December 20 to be exact, when the hotel caught fire. Caught with their pants down, the city lacked the equipment to address the old architecture and size of the building, and real people, Hotel owner Harold Steinfeld and his wife, Margaret, died in the fire. They were found dead of smoke inhalation in their 11th-floor penthouse. Authorities...

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AP Government forms relief committee on Guntur chilli market fire (Thaindian News)

Sun, 04 May 2008 12:15:52 GMT

Guntur (Andhra Pradesh), May 4 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Governmenton Sundayformed a Relief Committee to look into immediate and permanent measures to be taken up following a major fire that broke out in a chilli market yard here on Saturday. Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy announced this after visiting the Asia’s largest market yard here. The [...]

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Officials say New Mexico wildfire has burned nearly 60 homes (kansascity.com)

Sun, 04 May 2008 01:49:00 GMT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Firefighters worked in cooler, calmer weather Saturday to clear lines around a blaze that has burned nearly 60 homes and more than 20 square miles in the mountains of central New Mexico.

Authorities were able to confirm Saturday that 50 homes burned Wednesday in a fire caused by humans in the Manzano Mountains, souteast of Albuquerque, said Linda Peters, a fire...

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