Fla. Home Fire Kills 5; Windows Blocked
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. Sept. 23, 2004 - Firefighters had trouble getting into a burning home Thursday because the windows were covered by burglar bars and plywood storm shutters, and five family members died.
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Florida officials are worried that high winds and holiday barbeques could spark a large scale brush fire.  Firefighters in Palm Bay and Melbourne have tackled at least five small blazes between them during the past two days, Florida Today said Thursday.
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Five people including two children are in hospital and one is unaccounted for following a house fire.
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Mourners gathered Saturday to remember five children who died in a row house fire, while investigators tried to determine whether they were left alone or in the care of a baby sitter.
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A motel fire that killed five people and injured six others was caused by arson, officials said.
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The hurricane, blamed for three deaths, destroys homes, rips highways apart and cuts electricity to five million people. FORT PIERCE, FLA.
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A baby boy was killed Thursday when flames engulfed a home day-care operation, and an off-duty deputy suffered minor injuries when he braved thick smoke to try to save the infant.
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Passing motorists and a store worker frantically called authorities about a fire behind a furniture store the night nine firefighters perished inside, according to 911 tapes and transcripts released Thursday. An employee said the area was where workers took smoke breaks.
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A fire killed four people early Sunday in a two-story house where about a dozen people lived in makeshift rooms, some of them bedding down in closets, the state fire marshal said.
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By David Silverstein, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Sep. 11--DRACUT -- Firefighters from six communities couldn't save a single-family home in Dracut after a fast-moving fire tore through the house Saturday afternoon.
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A pre-dawn fire burned a home where windows were covered with plywood storm shutters, turning the house into a "convection oven" and killing four children and an adult Thursday, officials said.
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A fire raced through a home in rural northern Michigan before dawn Tuesday, killing a man and his four children and sending the children's mother to the hospital, authorities said.
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A mobile home fire early Saturday killed two adults and three children, authorities said.
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An apartment building fire killed three people, and authorities said Sunday they were investigating the blaze as a possible case of arson.
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OHIO FIRE KILLS 10. A suspected arson fire raced through an apartment complex in suburban Columbus, Ohio, yesterday, killing 10 people who lived in the same apartment and forcing others to jump from third-story windows to escape.
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A fire destroyed a family's home early Saturday, killing a man, his pregnant wife and two of their children, authorities and family members said.
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At least 10 people were killed in a fire early Monday at a state-run group home for the mentally disabled in southwest Missouri, the state fire marshal said.