Alberta Woman Loses Husband, Unborn Baby to Lightning Strike
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By BOB WEBER  PIGEON LAKE, Alta. (CP) - A woman whose husband and unborn baby were killed in a horrific lightning strike at a recreational area on the Father's Day weekend says they were experienced campers and fishers.
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Faulty electrical wiring may have sparked a fire that killed 10 people at a group home for the elderly and mentally ill, authorities said Wednesday.
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A couple spending their first night in a new house were among at least six people killed as unusually severe October storms destroyed homes, downed trees and knocked out power in several states, authorities said Friday.
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A lightning storm that swept through the Cascade Range and across eastern Washington sparked dozens of fires Friday, including a blaze that burned a home and several smaller structures.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The B.C. south coast is being hammered by another windstorm that has knocked out power to at least 190,000 people.  The storm has uprooted trees, knocked down power lines and disrupted travel with winds up to 100 kilometres an hour or more in some places.
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By Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Jun. 27--A vacant building near the Praxair facility in Cahokia was struck by lightning Tuesday afternoon.   The reported lightning strike resulted in the brief evacuation of employees from the new Praxair chemical plant.
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PAISLEY, Fla. Feb. 2 -- As the family's double-wide began to vibrate amid an unearthly roar of wind, a mother gathered her three children around her on the floor, tried to hush the baby and cast a blanket across them all.
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How our lives ground to a halt when a storm knocked out power.
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Four family members were found dead Monday in their home of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning, bringing the death toll from the Northwest's worst windstorm in a decade to 14.
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ST. CATHARINES, Ont. (CP) - Firemen battled a devastating house blaze into the early hours Tuesday, after a fire tore through a home, killing several people west of St. Catharines in the rural west Lincoln area.
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BELGRADE, Oct 30 (IPS) - A young woman lost her job in a small town in  Serbia after she gave birth to a baby boy and was to be absent  from work for a year. That sacking shook up a nation.
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By Shawntaye Hopkins, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 27--VERSAILLES -- A Versailles man watched the home he helped build crumble yesterday after lightning struck the garage and ignited a fire in the rear of the two-story brick house.   The house on Kidds Mill Road off Ky.
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A mother and her two-year-old son were killed when their home was flattened by a mudslide bringing the death toll from flash flooding in northern Thailand this month to at least eight.
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Jennifer Sneed was packed and ready for the trip to a hospital to have her baby this week, but she wasn't ready for a snowstorm.
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A pregnant woman and her two children were taken to hospital as 20 people were evacuated from fire at a block of flats.
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PELHAM, Ont. - A grandfather stood helpless as a massive inferno engulfed his son&#39;s farmhouse, claiming the lives of his pregnant daughter-in-law and seven grandchildren in this rural Ontario community.
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Thirty-three Finnish soldiers were injured by lightning during a night exercise in western Finland, military officials said Friday.'A sudden thunderstorm came over the area and lightning struck in two places,' said Lt. Col. Jukka Orava.Three soldiers who were seriously injured were being treated at a hospital, Orava said. He did not describe their injuries but said their condition was stable. Eight others were to be released later Friday.Twenty-two soldiers were only slightly injured with suspected hearing damage, Orava said. They were examined by military medical staff at a field hospital. Read more