Thousands Flee Ind. Recycling Plant Fire
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A magnesium fire at a recycling plant burned out of control Friday night, spewing wind-driven toxic fumes and forcing the evacuation of several thousand people from their homes.
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By AP  PORTLAND   With a forest fire growing on Labor Day weekend, authorities evacuated a popular recreation area west of Oregon's Cascade Range.
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A fire at a pork processing plant in southwest Missouri forced the evacuation of nearly 100 people from a neighboring town amid concerns of ammonia fumes released by the blaze.
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Forest fire forces 1,300 to evacuate in eastern Canada    OTTAWA, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- More than 1,300 people have been forced to leave their homes in eight communities in northwestern Ontario, Canada, as firefighters continued to battle hundreds of forest fires on Friday.
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Evacuation has been a struggle and an ever-changing odyssey for hundreds of thousands
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By Jenni Laidman, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Feb. 20--Black smoke billows across the Maumee River from a fast-moving factory fire.
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By Paul Sand, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 13--A chlorine leak at a chemical plant on Tacoma's waterfront Monday night sent a large force of firefighters and medical personnel to the scene and forced the evacuation of the industrial area around the plant.
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Firefighters were so busy battling a warehouse blaze Tuesday that they needed outside help &#151; to protect their own fire station.
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PORT DARLINGTON, Ont. (CP) - Exploding gas tanks that went off "like rockets" and a blaze at a propane company forced the evacuation of hundreds of people late Tuesday, police said.
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APEX, N.C. -- A raging fire in a hazardous waste plant in this Raleigh suburb sent dozens of people to nearby hospitals overnight. No serious injuries were reported, but town officials urged as many as 16,000 people to evacuate from their homes, fearing they could be poisoned by chemicals in the...
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By ANA BEATRIZ CHOLO ANAHEIM, Calif. - A fast-moving brush fire scorched 500 acres of parched hillside and crept into backyards Sunday, forcing authorities to evacuate more than 200 homes, Orange County fire officials said.
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By CLARA GARCIA Valencia County News-Bulletin AND MIGUEL NAVROT Journal Staff Writer  BELEN -- Hundreds of Valencia County residents were evacuated from their homes Friday as fire swept through the bosque west of Rio Communities and as far south as Casa Colorada.
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By Dave Skretta Associated Press  KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Several explosions engulfed a chemical plant in flames Wednesday, forcing a broad evacuation as the fire spewed a sticky substance that residents were warned not to touch.
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Explosions sent fireballs hundreds of feet into the air as flames gutted an industrial chemical recycling plant Friday morning.
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Residents begin the massive cleanup of one of the costliest US natural disasters ever.
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Anne Arundel County and state officials are calling for federal authorities to clean up a former pharmaceutical factory that holds more than 50,000 gallons of hazardous chemicals and could have devastating effects if it catches fire.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina  - A fire that created a toxic cloud at a hazardous waste plant in a Raleigh suburb has been extinguished and thousands of residents will be allowed to return home on Saturday, officials said.